RUBBER BOADS
To prevent automobiles from skidding on steep hills and dangerous crossings, Paris is covering its asphalt road with a mixture of rubber and bitumen. It will take eight years to rid the French capital of smooth asphalt, and meanwhile this smooth ‘‘rubber carpet” method is winning favour as a temporary substitute until concrete paving can be laid. Asphalt, which has a very bad reputation with motorists in the wet climate of Paris, is still the paying on 15 per cent, of the city’s streets, although the Highway Department has promised to do away with it altogether. j •
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Manawatu Times, Issue 6848, 1 March 1929, Page 4
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