ROAD MAKING
RAPID METHOD
GREATEST ADVANCE SINCE WAR.
i United Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 3.20 a.m.) LONDON, November 23
A new method of rapid road making, described as the givdost advance since the war, is reported by the "Daily Telegraph’s’ military oorrosPomk-B-. who •states that trials in India were .successful by the use of bitumen emulsion. A hard “skin” can be rapidly laid over the surf.act, forming a, roadway strong enough to bear an almost unlimited number of motor lorries, whereas ordinary road making involves a vas: amount of material in the shape of stones and lighter metal, also an immense amount of labour.
. New roads can be pushed into hostile territory at a rate of eight miles a day. The .surface is fhvst scarified, and the track is then levelled by means of a grader, and finally the bitumen emulsion, mixed cold with earth, is placed on the surface, thus forming the skin.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1933, Page 5
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