You know how much I enjoy a bad pun.
Well so apparently did others, back in the days of road building in Scotland and Britain. John Loudon McAdam's second surviving son, James Nicholl McAdam, who continued in his father's very successful line of road building, was nicknamed...
...wait for it...
"The Colossus of Roads".
Sad but true. I did NOT make that one up!
And yes, I can hear you groaning from here.
Sir James Nicoll McAdam, the son of John Loudon McAdam, the "macadamiser" of roads, was born in 1786, and was knighted in 1834. "The Colossus of Roads" was chief trustee and surveyor of the metropolitan turnpike roads. He died in 1852.
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