MOVING A BRIDGE
I TRAFFIC IN FULL SWING PARIS, Nov. 6. The footbridge over the Seine from the Place de la Concorde to the Chamber of Deputies was to-day moved six yards so as to leave room to widen the adjoining road bridge. Jacks' and windlasses having been set m position, Ibe mass of steel, weighing 'M) lons, is being shifted at the rate of ffim. fin hour, while the full flow of [pedestrian traffic is still using if. Thirty workmen are turning the windlasses' to the rhythm of a foreman's whistle, and gradually the steel frame moves forward from its old position to the new piers built to receive it.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17145, 30 December 1929, Page 5
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