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Volume 163, Issue 2
May 2010
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Research Article| May 01 2010

Highway design by highwaymen

C. McKay, MSc, CEng, MICE, MIStructE, MIHT
C. McKay, MSc, CEng, MICE, MIStructE, MIHT
Director, Colin McKay Ltd
Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, UK
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Received: April 30 2009
Accepted: September 07 2009
Online ISSN: 1757-9449
Print ISSN: 1757-9430
© 2010 The authors and the Institution of Civil Engineers
2010
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2010) 163 (2): 71–75.
https://doi.org/10.1680/ehah.2010.163.2.71
Article history
Received:
April 30 2009
Accepted:
September 07 2009

This paper presents an outline of the style of work in highway design that prevailed after World War II until approximately the mid-1960s – definitely before the days of computers, hand calculators and total-station surveying.

Keywords: history/land surveying/roads & highways
© 2010 The authors and the Institution of Civil Engineers
2010
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