Design & Construction Of Concrete Roads

By R.A.B. Smith

Published by Concrete Publications Limited: Westminster c1934 (Preface Date 1934)

"Concrete Publications Ltd (CPL) was a small, specialist, publishing house to the concrete industry and a pioneer in the promotion and dissemination of best practice. It was remarkable for the length of time it operated and for the quality of its work, much of which finds parallels with the concerns and activities of the concrete industry today. Indeed, it was a forerunner of, or was linked with, several concrete industry bodies still in existence: The Concrete Society; the British Cement Association; the Institution of Structural Engineers; the commercial publisher, Palladian

Publications; and the Blue Circle cement brand. Perhaps most importantly its output lives on in a range of well-regarded publications, both magazines and books, though - as individual titles are now issued by various publishers - their early identity is no longer readily identifiable. CPUs own origins are obscure, but are tied to the founding of the journal, Concrete & Constructional Engineering, and arose from the vision of its founder, Edwin Sachs."