Dentists - Doctors - Inventors - Medicine - Science

Mar. 22 Science Aids The Road Designers: A specially designed trailer machine which, towed behind a vehicle, tests braking forces and supplies useful data onoad materials. This is used on the experimental roads of the Road Research Laboratory at Harmondsworth How science aids the road maker: Laboratory work helps decide what surface a road will have, and a variety of safety measures for vehicle and traffic control systems. A variety if strange machines, instruments and devices are in constant use by research workers at the laboratory of the Road research unit of the department of scientific and industrial research, at Harmondsworth. Started in 1933 as a small experimental station on the Colnbrook By-Pass by the Ministry of Transport, today its scope is much broader and concerns road materials, methods of making road,s layout, traffic and safety. Physicists, chemists, mathematicians combine with the practical engineers to discover ways of improving the laying, the maintaining and economic upkeep of the country's roads. Work is firstly done in the labs, using a variety of machines. Findings are then tested in practice on the lab's own test roads, and finally a full-scale trial is arranged with, Local authority. Cost of making a road job an experiment is small compared with the possible savings effected Traffic control and flow by fly-overs, lights etc are studied on models and by practical tests and statistics and other data made available to all interested

Restrictions Only for United Kingdom

Aids Arranged Available Braking Broader By-pass Chemists Colnbrook Combine Compared Concerns Constant Cost Data Decide Designers Devices Discover Done Effected Experimental Finally Findings Firstly Flow Full-scale Harmondsworth Helps Improving Interested Labs Layout Maintaining Mathematicians Measures Methods Physicists Possible Practical Savings Scope Specially Statistics Studied Tested Tests Towed Trailer Upkeep Useful Ways

Features In These Collections

> Contributors > KEY