BRIDGING THE TIGRIS
IRAQ GOVERNMENT S INITIATIVE BRITISH FIRM COMPLETES CONTRACT (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, March 15. (Received March 16, at 11.55 a.m.) The opening day of the King Faisal, the second bridge over the Tigris at Bagdad, marks another achievement both for the Iraq authorities in their progressive provision of modem facilities for the development of the country and for British engineering with its world-wide record. The contracts for two bridges, named North and King Faisal, costing 400,000 Iraqi dinars, wore given to a famous firm of British contractors, who have carried out many great constructional works both at home and abroad.
The length of each bridge, including approaches, is 454 metros. A total of 50.000 tons of steel and metalwork was used in both bridges, the material being all transported from Great Britain. The concrete amounted to 34.000 cubic metres. The river piers are supported on pneumatic caissons in the riverbed.
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Evening Star, Issue 23527, 16 March 1940, Page 14
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