Concrete Roads
and Their Construction
År: 1920
Serie: Concrete Series
Forlag: Concrete Publications Limited
Sted: London
Sider: 197
UDK: 625.8 Con-gl.
Being a Description of the concrete Roads in the United Kingdom, together with a Summary of the Experience in this Form of Construction gained in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America.
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32
CONCRETE ROADS
Fig. 22.—Road under construction, Mountnessing, Essex.
It should be observed that the first intention was to use the
reinforced concrete as a foundation for other material, but it was
afterwards decided that the concrete should be employed for the
whole thickness of this portion of the road, and this plan was
carried out. Some time after laying, the surface was covered
with a thin coating of tarred slag.
Fig. 21 is a diagram of the road, showing in a section from kerb
to kerb the position of the concrete, reinforcement, macadam, etc.
This work was planned and arranged with the approval of the
Road Board by Mr. Percy J. Sheldon, County Surveyor, and Mr.
Alfred Lyddon, late Deputy County Surveyor, Essex.
Latest Report.—Mr. Sheldon, reporting upon the road in
November, 1920, states that it is in very good condition, and the
cost of maintenance has been practically nil. The road carries
a very heavy traffic.
Epping New Road —Buckhurst Hill.—This road forms part of a
great highway which runs from London, through Woodford,
to Newmarket and Cambridge, and the portion which has been
laid in concrete is the Epping New Road at Buckhurst Hill. It
carries a weight of traffic of some 1,500 tons a day.
The stretch of concrete road originally designed was 500 yds.,