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Dustless Roads Tar Macadam: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors, and Others

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THE growing use of motor-cars, and the destructive action due to the rapid speed at which they are driven, and the sucking action of the indiarubber tyres on the surface of the roads, has rendered a change in their management necessary.

Dustless Roads. Tar Macadam: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors, and Others.

By T. Walker Smith. Pp. xi + 225. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1909.) Price 10s. 6d. net.

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Dustless Roads Tar Macadam: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors, and Others . Nature 81, 92–93 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081092a0

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