203:. In 1910 he was invited to become a member of the Advisory Engineering Committee to the Roads Board, who had been impressed by his road surface trials, and served as their chief engineering officer upon leaving his position in Kent. He later became manager and secretary of the board. One of his innovations was to divide the road network intro three categories on the basis of which road maintenance grants would be distributed and he appointed a large staff of engineers to carry out this categorisation.
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Vehicles; Taxation and Regulation of Road Vehicles; Licensing and Regulation of Public Service Vehicles and Traffic Signs committees of the Ministry of Transport. In 1936 he chaired the committee for the Development of Civil Aviation in the United Kingdom.
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during the rebuilding in 1886. From 1892 until 1895 he served as the engineer and surveyor of the
Ffestiniog Local Highways Board, followed by a similar appointment to the Malvern Urban District Council. From 1904 until 1913 Maybury served as the
268:, a position he would hold for the next nine years. In this role Maybury developed new arterial highways and modernized existing roads, providing a considerable means of employment during a period of depressed economic output.
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in 1933, an annual accolade awarded to the profession's most regarded engineers. He had been a member of the institution since 1910 and also served as president of the
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513:"Obituary : Henry Percy Maybury. 1864-1943"
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224:. Maybury had charge of the roads used by the
517:Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers
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328:In 1927 he officially opened Maybury Road in
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