BIGGEST SPAN BRIDGE.
SYDNEY NOT ECLIPSED. Sydney will still have the world’s biggest span bridge, in. spite of America’s claims about the Kill Van Kull bridge, officially known as the Bayonne bridge, according to an official of the British Steelworks Association. He said the Bayonne bridge was deliberately built to “lick creation.” It could economically have been hundreds of feet shorter, although it is longer from pin to pin. “That is a mere engineering trifle. In all other respects, as compared with the Sydney bridge, it is smaller. The Sydney structure is higher, and of a far greater total length; it is thrice as heavy, and the Bayonne bridge has not been built to carry railways.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 5, 5 December 1931, Page 12
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116BIGGEST SPAN BRIDGE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 5, 5 December 1931, Page 12
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