CAIRO'S NEW BRIDGE.
A TRIUMPH OP BRITISH L ENGINEERING.
CAIRO, June 7,
Nearly 4000 tons of steel, all of which was manufactured by Messrs Dorman, Long and Company, Ltd, at their Middlesborough works, has gone to the making of the new Khedive Ismail bridge, .which was officially opened here to-aay by King Fuad of Egypt. This bridge, which replaces the old Kasr-el-Nil bridge, built about. 60 years ago, spans the Nile and leadi from the town to Gezira, one of the most pleasant residential districts of Cairo. The construction work has been carried out in a little more than two years. The bridge, which is about 400 yards long and 20 yards broad, consists of eight sf>ans, one of which is a swing span to allow of clear river passage. The seven river piers are faced with Assuan granite, while the marble on the steps and terraces at each end of the bridge has been obtained from quarries near the Pyramids at Giza. The modernity of the design is heightened by the two cenotaph-like light pylons at each end and _ the rows of lamps fitted for floodlighting. The whole bridge, indeed, is a credit to British engineering.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 14 July 1933, Page 3
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