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The roof has a single matchboarding inside, but on the outside is a matchboarding, then a layer of 2-ply 'ruberoid,' then a layer of quilted seaweed, then
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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a second matchboarding, and finally a cover of 3-ply 'ruberoid.'
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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The roof has a single match-boarding inside, but on the outside is a match-boarding, then a layer of 2-ply ruberoid, then a layer of quilted seaweed, then a second match-boarding, and finally a cover of 3-ply ruberoid. "[
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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"Ruberoid is a PERMANENT easily fixed bitumen roofing for buildings of any size or shape." Ruberoid Company Ltd. advert in the British agricultural journal The Countryman, Autumn 1955, p.20.
January 20, 2010