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Identifier: surveyormunicipa45lond (find matches)
Title: The Surveyor and municipal engineer
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: Municipal engineering Engineering Great Britain
Publisher: London, Temple Press (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he only reason for the submergedoutfall given by the engineer was thai he could no1take the levels because the tide was up. tl was arather singular explanation to give, bu1 the the matter was it was due to a mistake the engineerhad never anticipated, and was compelled finally toadmit. With regard to tar-painting, he might saythat they never used any pitch at all, so long as thetar was in its usual condition. Sometimes the store gether The mixing of bis tar-macadam was done byhand Wl, to Lytham h< yard lull Oi .■hipi^ng-. and ill ord these he mixed them with larger stone for the tar-, lam. From that time on they had done that,and one of the largest contracting urn..- in Iwhom be told of the step he had taken unmedpatented the process and put it on the market—(laughter)—in spite of the fact that he had been put-down the material in Lythaiiput a harrow load of ehipping- into a yard of He had often though! of getting Hutchinsons appa- 998 THE SURVEYOR AND MUNICIPAL June 19, 1914.
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June L9. 1914. AND COUNTY ENGINEER. 999 ratus for testing the viscosity of tars, but lie had beendoing so well that he was rather afraid to adopt morescientific methods. He did not know what the new-system of vertical retorts at the gasworks might do,but it might alter the character of the tar. The 60-ft.road to which reference had been made was laid outfor them by the estate. With regard to the syphon*all he could say now from his experience was thathe would not attempt to syphon a sewer under abrook. As it was, cleansing operations were easy;the bottom of the brook had been concreted, andthere was sufficient velocity of water to clean it out.In regard to the provision of trees, they were metvery well by the ground landlord, who presentedthem with all the trees they wanted for new streetsWith only two cells at the refuse destructor, and asingle boiler, he agreed that they required a stand bjplant. In a statement prepared since tin- meeting Mr. Price deals as follows with other questi

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