"Everything for roads" : Fleming & Company, Glasgow : advert in the Scottish Municipal Annual, 1933
An advert from the 1933 edition of the Scottish Municipal Annual, a compendium that lists the various local government authorities and their jurisdictions, along with information pertaining to 'municipal' officials, services and interests. The Annual seems to have run from the late 1920s into the 1960s.
This advert, issued by the Glasgow concern of Fleming & Company, shows a fine period illustration showing road construction and equipment as would have been in use in the early 1930s. Pneumatic picks, with a compressor, can be seen, along with a stone crusher. On the finished road various methods of coating or surfacing can be seen with road rollers, an automated tar spray and surfacer along with the old tar 'boiler', spray and hand spreading of chippings. Fleming's seem to have had an interest in Bi-Tarco.
What is slightly more amazing is that, after 130 years, Fleming's are still in business in Glasgow now dealing in traffic management and road cones.
"Everything for roads" : Fleming & Company, Glasgow : advert in the Scottish Municipal Annual, 1933
An advert from the 1933 edition of the Scottish Municipal Annual, a compendium that lists the various local government authorities and their jurisdictions, along with information pertaining to 'municipal' officials, services and interests. The Annual seems to have run from the late 1920s into the 1960s.
This advert, issued by the Glasgow concern of Fleming & Company, shows a fine period illustration showing road construction and equipment as would have been in use in the early 1930s. Pneumatic picks, with a compressor, can be seen, along with a stone crusher. On the finished road various methods of coating or surfacing can be seen with road rollers, an automated tar spray and surfacer along with the old tar 'boiler', spray and hand spreading of chippings. Fleming's seem to have had an interest in Bi-Tarco.
What is slightly more amazing is that, after 130 years, Fleming's are still in business in Glasgow now dealing in traffic management and road cones.