THE MACADAM CENTENARY
This is the year of the Macadam centenary, and from the road point of view it is interesting to motorists to know that the process of road making devised by John Loudon Macadam was the forerunner of the tar macadam of to-day. Early macadam roads were what was known as waterbound, and had nothifig like the freedom from dust and durability of the modern road. But Macadam undoubtedly laid the foundation of a type of road that, inefficient though it was for modern motor traffic, lent itself to developments, which with the aid of tar and other binding materials, have given us the dustproof highways of to-day.
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Evening Star, Issue 22443, 14 September 1936, Page 13
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110THE MACADAM CENTENARY Evening Star, Issue 22443, 14 September 1936, Page 13
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