BRIDGE OVER ZAMBESI.
GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 31. The Lower Zambesi bridge, which measures over 2J miles, and is probably the longest in the world, has just been completed. The bridge was started about 3-) years ago, and has been finished well within the period of the contract by the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company, of Darlington, England, who also built the remarkable Victoria. Falls bridge. The new bridge, which plays a vital part in the system of railways by which the Nyasaland protectorate is being developed, represents a notable engineering triumph, and numerous technical difficulties had to be surmounted in its construction. Tlie superstructure of the bridge rests on 35 main piers of caisson construction in the bed of the river to a depth of 120 feet. The Lower Zambesi has been notorious as a malaria and (backwater fever area, but the mosquito control system inaugurated by the construction oompanv was so successful that during the whole three and a half years not a single case of malaria has ocelli red among all the European employees who were brought from England to work on the bridge.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 288, 2 November 1934, Page 9
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191BRIDGE OVER ZAMBESI. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 288, 2 November 1934, Page 9
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