Talk:Tarmacadam

message: Hey, in the UK Tarmac is colloquially used to refer to a road surface, should this be mentioned at all? Also, I've literally never hear a brit use the word Asphalt. The latter doesn't matter, but I feel like the former is worth mentioning? I'm not sure though. Inkybinky3  (talk) 00:39, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: British Colloquial Usage

message: Ummmm... I'm not really sure of the accuracy of this article. Tarmac was invented by John Loudon McAdam and that article gives his death as 1836, it also says: The first macadamized road in North America was completed in 1830.. While this article says: Tarmac was invented when E. Purnell Hooley was passing a tarworks in 1901. Which is right? Certainly when I was at school I was taught that John Macadam was the inventor of tarmac although the details escape me these days. --Colin Angus Mackay 23:48, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: McAdam invented the "macadamization" road-building method all right (see Macadam), but he was long gone before the practice of sealing macadam roads with tar (tarmacking) came in, as this article says, at the start of the 20th century. -- Picapica 10:44, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Verification

message: I've uploaded the following PD images to commons, for potential use in this article.  Currently I don't think the article is long enough to warrant their inclusion, but if you think otherwise then please add them.  In the meantime I've posted them here for reference.  The sky's gone funny - I can fix this digitally if the photos are going to be used.  Let me know via my talk page (or feel free to fix them up yourself if you want...) --HappyDog 07:30, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Those are fine pictures, but almost certainly of asphalt concrete, not tarmac.  Toiyabe 23:03, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have added the first image to Pavement_(material)#Asphalt_paving, where I think it fits in very nicely!  Thank you for the picture!  However, I have to agree with Toiyabe that it doesn't really apply to the Tarmac article.--Mdwyer 05:09, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some photos 

message: Is the name Tarmac (still) a proprietary name, or can anybody use it?
Also, do the companies with the name Tarmac in them (there are loads on Companies' House) all belong to one group?
: It is the registered trading name of the Tarmac company Chevin (talk) 11:39, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  The answer to your second question is "no". I won't mention any examples in case someone from Anglo American is reading, but a few of them have web sites. Aoeuidhtns (talk) 22:48, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proprietary name or common name? 

message: If Tarmac was invented by a Scotsman, then it isn't an English Invention, so I have removed it from that category.Rubisco (talk) 13:36, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Since it is an English invention I will be putting the category backChevin (talk) 11:39, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  English Invention? 

message: >> Tarmac (short for tarmacadam, a portmanteau for tar-penetration macadam) is a type of highway surface, pioneered by John Loudon McAdam in around 1820. <<
Oh no, it isn't! McAdam had been dead 65 years before the patenting of tarmac. And though tarmac was indeed a development of macadamization the words "Strictly speaking..." in the next sentence aren't sufficient to make up for the mis-statement in the first sentence of the article. Someone needs to take a good look at re-writing this article from scratch... -- Picapica (talk) 23:29, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll be having a go at it shortly Chevin (talk) 11:39, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Article is in need of a thorough make-over

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