Rising volumes and loadings of road traffic have led to the development of new surfacing materials such as thin surfacings and stone mastic asphalt (SMA). Thin surfacings, used in layers with thicknesses between those of traditional wearing courses and veneer coats, provide, in principle, all the advantages of a surface dressing without the disadvantages of the aftercare service required for surface dressing. This report describes road trials to assess SMA as well as various categories of proprietary thin surface materials which are commonly available in the UK. The results were encouraging and several of the proprietary thin surfacings now have Departmental Type Approval for use on trunk roads and motorways in England.

Road Trials of Stone Mastic Asphalt and Other Thin Surfacings (TRL Report)

Nicholls, J. C.

Thomas Telford, Ltd.

If Mme de Riccoboni's novels were widely known to the reading public of the eighteenth century, her best and most original productions were reserved for the privileged few who received her letters. Mme de Riccoboni led a secluded life; she had no enemies and very few close friends. Her opinions tend to be disinterested and objective, unmotivated by spite or personal animosity. Her judgements on literary works, people and events were, however, influenced by three distinctive personal traits: her feminism, her pessimism, which grew stronger with advancing age, and her anglophilia which gradually gave way to a pronounced anglophobia. For today's reader, Mme Riccoboni's letters have a twofold interest - historical and human. On the one hand, they offer a tableau of eighteenth-century life seen from a particular viewpoint; on the other, they record the love of an older woman for a younger man. Although Mme de Riccoboni never intended her letters to be made public, she obviously wanted to please their recipients and took pains to make them interesting. This is especially true of her correspondence with David Hume, David Garrick and Robert Liston, and it is for this reason that they have been gathered into a single volume.

Mme Riccoboni's letters to David Hume, David Garrick and Sir Robert Liston, 1764-1783 (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment 1976)

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Voltaire Foundation

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Road Trials of Stone Mastic Asphalt and Other Thin Surfacings (TRL Report)

Mme Riccoboni's letters to David Hume, David Garrick and Sir Robert Liston, 1764-1783 (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment 1976)