| It should never be forgotten that a steel wheel on a steel rail has one-seventh of the friction of a rubber-tyred wheel on a bitumen surface. |
| He was the technical services engineer for a bitumen company, delighting in tales of tarry deposits and exploding tankers. |
| The road becomes a strip of bitumen flanked at first by banana trees, then by an array of she-oaks. |
| In the absence of surface dressing, dense bitumen macadam tends to polish and become dangerous. |
| It might turn out that there is enough flat roof at the top of your flat to pour thousands of pounds worth of bitumen, asphalt and lead onto. |
| Supposedly, roads laid with a mixture of recycled plastic and bitumen were more durable because of the water-resistant characteristic of plastic. |
