BRITISH ROAD TAR.
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AT a luncheon held at the Garden Club, Wembley, on Wednesday last, Mr. H. C. Head and Lord Gainford were the chief speakers on behalf of the British Road Tar Association. The chairman, Mr. Head, referred to the great importance to the British steel, iron a id coal industries of disposing of the by-products of the gas and coke oven industries, and stressed the importance
of tar produced and treated by the industries for'road making and surfacing in a form to meet the requirements of present-day conditions and traffic. British tar, in combination with approved mineral aggregates in the form of macadam, or as a top dressing, not only gave sufficient wheel adhesion to prevent skidding, but retained it 'whether the road were wet or dry. Lord Gainford referred to the objection to the use of tar on the ground of its deleterious effect upon fish life, and said this could be overcome by mixing a small proportion of bitumen with the tar at places where water drained off into streams. Mr. E. Shrapne1I-Smith conf rmed Lord Gainford's view. The company afterwards inspected a road made with British stone and road tar.