"New Flexible Metalled Road Sections From TimeCast" Topic
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| Mr Canuck | 27 Jul 2015 8:15 a.m. PST |
They look pretty good. It must be a UK thing though – what is a "Metalled" road? Never heard of that before…??? |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 27 Jul 2015 8:24 a.m. PST |
to metal (British) – "make or mend (a road) with road metal" road metal – "crushed rock, broken stone, etc, used to construct a road" "A metalled road is covered with small or crushed stones." |
| dandiggler | 27 Jul 2015 8:38 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the English to English translation!  I was wondering that myself. |
| Mr Canuck | 27 Jul 2015 10:15 a.m. PST |
Ahh… Thanks Bill! So that's what we would call a "gravel road." I guess the colour of the road sections threw me too. They look like Asphalt, whereas to me, a gravel road should be a beige/khaki/light grey-brown colour. Odd that it hasn't really got anything to do with "metal" as such. |
| Mr Canuck | 27 Jul 2015 10:30 a.m. PST |
Correction – not a "gravel" road apparently. From Wikipedia: "…"Road metal" later became the name of stone chippings mixed with tar to form the road surfacing material tarmac. A road of such material is called a "metalled road" in Britain, a "paved road" in Canada and the US, or a "sealed road" in Australia and New Zealand…" So the colour of the road sections shown is proper.  |
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