CASTING A CABLE.—A steel erector walks up part of the main cable in the middle catwalk mesh of the 3300 ft main span of the new Forth road bridge which will eventually span north and south Queensferry, West Lothian, Scotland. The spinning wheel, used to stretch the cables between the supports, is travelling northwards. Dunfermline is in the middle background. About 30,000 miles of wire are being strung between the supports to form the main suspension cables for the new bridge, which is expected to be open to traffic by the middle of next year. The bridge will cost more than £16,000,000. It will be the longest suspension bridge in Europe and the fourth longest in the world, stretching more than a mile and a-half. including approach viaducts.

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29824, 17 May 1962, Page 11

CASTING A CABLE.—A steel erector walks up part of the main cable in the middle catwalk mesh of the 3300 ft main span of the new Forth road bridge which will eventually span north and south Queensferry, West Lothian, Scotland. The spinning wheel, used to stretch the cables between the supports, is travelling northwards. Dunfermline is in the middle background. About 30,000 miles of wire are being strung between the supports to form the main suspension cables for the new bridge, which is expected to be open to traffic by the middle of next year. The bridge will cost more than £16,000,000. It will be the longest suspension bridge in Europe and the fourth longest in the world, stretching more than a mile and a-half. including approach viaducts.