Excerpt from Concrete Roads and Their Construction: 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 In the following pages particulars are given, as far as it has been possible to obtain them, of the various concrete roads that have been laid in this country up to the time of going to press, and the methods adopted in their construction. Every effort has been made to pre sent a complete survey of the work done, and to this is added the latest information obtained from the officials concerned with regard to the condition of each road. It will be seen that these communications are all strongly in favour of the concrete road, and there is thus established a valuable summary of evidence from those best able to form an Opinion from the point of view of the road authorities. A chapter has been devoted to roads in other countries, for the account in which of the concrete roads in America we are indebted to. The courtesy of Mr. Thomas J. Harris. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.