The Archive · 1924

The Tramway Track

To the Editor of the "NontH-Cxia Dairy News, Sij—Having for a number of years' taken a very active interest jin construction work of. various kinds T was much interested in your remarks on ''a new cement" "and what a benefit you appear to make lout its use has been in the return to normal of ins in Nanking Road. You inform jus that it costs four times more than the ordinary kind, therefore it is costing say Tls. 12.40 per. cask Jof 4 cubic feet, while traffic Jean travel over' it in from 24 to 48 hours whilst with the ordinary, brand it takes 21 to 28 days. Then we are told (presumably as a sop) that the section between the Bund and Kiangse Road has not been torn up for 17 years when the tram rails and wood paving were originally laid down, and to crown all, Oxford street (London) was up for two or three",

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