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~Road Making and Maintenance:~
A PRACTICAL TREATISE FOR ENGINEERS, SURVEYORS, AND OTHERS.
WITH AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ANCIENT AND MODERN PRACTICE.
BY THOS. AITKEN, ASSOC.M.INST.C.E., Member of the Association of
Municipal and County Engineers; Member of the Sanitary Inst.; Surveyor
to the County Council of Fife, Cupar Division.
_WITH NUMEROUS PLATES, DIAGRAMS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS._
CONTENTS.--Historical Sketch.--Resistance of Traction.--Laying out New
Roads.--Earthworks, Drainage, and Retaining Walls.--Road Materials, or
Metal.--Quarrying.--Stone Breaking and Haulage.--Road-Rolling and
Scarifying.--The Construction of New, and the Maintenance of existing
Roads.--Carriage Ways and Foot Ways.
"The Literary style is EXCELLENT ... A COMPREHENSIVE and EXCELLENT
Modern Book, an UP-TO-DATE work ... Should be on the reference shelf of
every Municipal and County Engineer or Surveyor in the United Kingdom,
and of every Colonial Engineer."--_The Surveyor_.
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THIRD EDITION, Revised and Enlarged. With Illustrations, 12s. 6d.
~Painters' Colours, Oils, & Varnishes:~
~A PRACTICAL MANUAL.~
BY GEORGE H. HURST, F.
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