Bitumen in Road Surfacing
Published by Shell International Petroleum, 1963
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Crappy Old Books, Barry, United KingdomCrappy Old Books
AbeBooks seller since February 6, 2025
Condition: Used - Good
£ 12.50
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Bitumen in Road Surfacing (1963) by Shell International Petroleum Shell International Petroleum | ISBN: none | Condition: Good Sold by Crappy Old Books Here it is: the glossiest ode to gloopy black genius you?ll ever read. Bitumen in Road Surfacing (1963) is Shell?s love letter to the sticky substance that keeps Britain more or less attached to itself. Compiled in that heroic early-sixties mood when men in neat ties solved national problems with clipboards and conviction, this handbook is part chemistry set, part sermon, and entirely committed to the proposition that life gets better when the binder grade is correct. Open it and breathe in the era: crisp diagrams, confident cross-sections, and captions so earnest they make a traffic cone blush. You?ll tour the thrilling frontier of penetration indices, viscosity curves, temperature susceptibility, and the subtle art of persuading stones to behave like a single, sensible surface. There are grainy photos of immaculate test rigs, laboratory glassware with mysterious residues, and charts that slope attractively towards ?optimum? It?s asphalt romance with the lights on. Shell doesn?t merely explain bitumen; it courts it. Emulsions are introduced like debutantes. Cutbacks arrive fashionably late. Aggregates are reviewed as if they?re auditioning for a West End revival of Macadam! And somewhere, quietly humming beneath the prose, is the industrial hymn that powered the M-roads, by-passes, and brave new roundabouts of a freshly motorised Britain. Condition: Good ? meaning it?s carried a respectable patina of lab life. The spine stands straight, the pages are intact, and there may be the faintest whisper of solvent and serious purpose. Expect a few gentle scuffs, the odd pencilled tick beside a particularly elegant grading envelope, and the dignified aura of a book that once decided whether your lane got ruts or glory. Ideal for civil engineers, design historians, and anyone who has ever gazed at a flawlessly rolled surface and thought, ?Yes, but what?s the binder content?? Place it on your coffee table to terrify guests into discussing viscosity at 60°C, or shelve it next to your copies of Road Research to complete the shrine to British infrastructure chic. Lovingly salvaged by Crappy Old Books , where forgotten technical triumphs are rehomed with affection, irony, and the faint smell of hot tar after rain. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Bitumen in Road Surfacing
- Author
- Shell International Petroleum
- Publisher
- Shell International Petroleum
- Publication year
- 1963
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardback
Crappy Old Books
Barry, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since February 6, 2025
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Crappy Old Books aims to be the online version of our much endangered high street second hand book stores. Here you will find all sorts of junk that you just couldnt imagine. Crappy Old Books also aims to provide all of these books at great rates. The site was concieved on Monday 23rd Novemeber 2009, and is slowly growing. Hopefully over years it'll have much more to offer and will be a joy to browse through, just like our musty second hand book stores of yore.
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