SYDNEY BRIDGE.
LARGEST ARCH IN WORLD. COST NEARLY £6,000,000. (British Official Wireless.) Received August 12, 10.5 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 11. The largest arch bridge in the world, which British engineers are building over the harbour at Sydney, Australia, is nearing completion. This impressive piece of engineering spans a channel 16i0 feet wide, and rises above the water level to 1 5 feet higher than tho summit of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Tho two ends are about to be joined, and are onjj. inches apart now. Each weighs 1-1,000 tons, yet despite the Inigo weight, they are within an inch of alignment, and the width of the gap is exactly as calculated by tho designer over two years ago. After the two halves have been joined next week tho work will begin of placing the floor on the bridge to carry four lines of railway, 57 feet, of roadway, and two . footways. Tho bridge is 160 feet wide. The work is being done by Dorman, Long and Company, engineers, of Middlesborough. and tho cost will bo nearly £6.000,000. Nearly 60,000 tons of steel, 80 per cent of which was mado at Middlesborough. is being used. Dorman and Long’s contract has been accepted for a new bridge over the Nile at Cairo, to replace the existing Kasrel Nile Bridge. This bridge will be 1250 feet long and 66 feet wide.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 219, 12 August 1930, Page 7
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227SYDNEY BRIDGE. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 219, 12 August 1930, Page 7
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