A GIANT GIRDER.
The largest mass of iron and steel ever put together in Australia, for romoval was the other day laid down oh Princes Bridge, Melbourne. It is. in the shape of an immense girder, but actually it consists of many girders, laced and bound .together by a strong bracing cf pieces of tough angle steel. The wholo ma?,n is really the crown of a now bridge, under which the railway lines now terminating at Princes Bridge are .to be extended to the new Btation lower down., Altogether the mass is 16ft. wido, 74Jft. long, and weighs 50 tons. It was built at Dorman, Long, and Co.'s foundry at South Melbourne, and its construction occupied a largo gang of skilled ironworkersj three months;. ~ i A special carriage of steol had to be built to carry this structure, and 50 horses wero required to draw., it. '> (
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 April 1908, Page 5
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146A GIANT GIRDER. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 April 1908, Page 5
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