The Maintenance of Macadamised RoadsE. & F.N. Spon, 1892 - 186 páginas |
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advantage amount attention bottom breaking broken stone cantonniers cent centimetres charge Clee Hill stone cloth coating consolidated constant labourer cost of labour cost of maintenance county roads Crown 8vo cube yards damage detritus diameter ditches drainage drains draught dust edition employed Engineers expenditure Fcap feet figs fresh materials granite gravel hand scrapers heavy highway districts hollows Holyhead horses inches inches thick inches wide Inst length of road less limestone load macadamised macadamised roads machine main roads manual labour McAdam metalling ordinary parish patches Ponts et Chaussées proportion quantity of materials removed repairs road maintenance road materials road-coating roadman roller scraping side channels side-ditches silicious sod bordering South Wales spread square yard Steam stone-breaking subsoil surface surveyor tire tons traction engine traffic Treatise turnpike roads turnpike trusts vehicles waggons water-tables wear weight wheels width yard of materials yards per mile
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