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Company warehouses and                                                               First motorised municipal
                                                                                                 workshops. Paint shop.                                                             cleaning vehicles.
                                                                                                           Madrid.                                                                  Barcelona.



                                                                                                                                                                                                                Work began on the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                Barcelona-Sants and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                Barcelona-Término train
                                                                                                                                                                                                                stations, the latter now
                                                                                                                                                                                                                known as Barcelona-Estación
                                                                                                                                                                                                                de Francia.
                                                                                                                                                                                     We purchased the first
                                                                                                                                                                                     motorised trucks to provide   Portland Valderrivas began
                                                                                                                                                                                     public services in Barcelona.   cement production in
                                                                                                                                                                                     Horsepower nonetheless     1925 with the opening of
                                                                                                                                                                                     remained the main means    the Vicálvaro plant on the
                                                                                                                                                                                     of transport.              outskirts of Madrid.

                                                                                                                                                                                                   1930











                                                                                                                                 FCC was the first to begin
                                                                                                                                 using asphalt mix road
                                                                                                                                 surfacing in Spain, with
                                                                                                                                 a particular impact on city
                                                                                                                                 streets. Five kilometres of the
                                                                                                                                 Madrid-France highway were
                                                                                                                                 paved.







                                                                                                                                                                                             Cement pavements being laid on
                                                                                                                                                                                             Calle Alcalá. Madrid.

                                                                                                                                           Presentation of the first
                                                                                                                                        motor vehicles used for urban
                                                                                                                                              services. Barcelona.

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