PARIS ROAD-MAKING.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19153, 9 November 1927, Page 6

PARIS ROAD-MAKING.

I SUCCESS OF OLD METHOD' ! In an old daily PIP" ■ day, October 2nd, 1858, it w | what astonishing to find the ■ ! paragraph on tlie subject o ' ing, and tiie methods employ i !do not differ very greatl7 *«« " ; >n use at tho present tw». t ! England and in rra^4* t - r6 . ••Autocar"): "A new i making lias jiist wen BU ' ■. i the ordinary pavement on i i'lace du Palais Royal,. quantity of concrete abou . . in thickness is S rsf: n « kittf on this is applied a layer 1 reduced to powder and , state. On this latter, about five inches t.ity of river sand is sifte , jirfji the surface is pressed down , |J ( cast-iron roller «igto»B /J® tons. In a few hours tire « made may. be passed ove . ,«» heaviest waggons without impression being left by The authorities were api»««£ pleased with the success o -iA that they tried it m anothe fi* -he city, for the paper goes on A "The same systein is now to part of the Rue St. SBj tween the Palais R°y®l de Richelieu, and in as far as the end of t » Francais." ■. v ~3m In view of this success whv the method wa' n0 . jnC « and whv it remaineu in awy j, some fifty years and more beiore again brought into use. _ MlB

It i? » dangerous P rac^°t down hill with tho gears. disengaged because it I engage the gears ivlien n ■