1.0.A.9.99.
21-2.30
Forwards copy of Memorial with enclosures from
Weesen bolfing (Far Eash.) htḍ relating to thevi
road-
surfacing material
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These people are certainly unlikely to lose
business by lack of pertinacity.
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Short of its verbosity and self-praise
the voluminous correspondence enclosed in the
despatch briefly amounts to the following: -
"Colfix" is a liquid bituminous top dressing,
applied cold, for the surface of roads. Colfix
(Far East) Limited, who handle the product in
Hong Kong have repeatedly urged the Colonial
Government to substitute it for the "straight"
asphalt used by the Roads Office. The price of
"Colfix" has been progressively reduced from 50
cents a gallon in 1927 to 35 cents in 1929.
During the past two years the Public Works
Department in conjunction with the Company's
representatives has given "Colfix" five tests on
Hong Kong roads. The results have been most
unsatisfactory which the Company, notwithstanding
some unconvincing attempts to explain away the fact,
has to admit. The most strikingly illogical of
these explanations is that in which it is urged
that allowance should be made for "the weight and
nature of the traffic borne by the road in question"
Although earlier in the correspondence Colfix is
said to have been used successfully on the Great
North Road at High Barnet carrying 17,000 tons a
day.
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