BRIDGE FOR TRAFFIC
PLACED IN POSITION DEVONFORT’S NEW WHARF The big steel bridge for the conveyance of traffic from the motor ferries to the new wharf at Devonport was placed in position by the Harbour Board’s SO-ton crane this morning. The operation was superintended by the Harbour Board engineer, Mr. D. Holderness, and once the crane was berthed the whole job of placing the bridge in position occupied a matter of minutes. The inner end of the structure will move on hinges attached to the wharf The outer end will travel in vertica. guides- supported by a reinforced concrete tower, on top of which will b« placed big winches, electrically driver and automatically operated by the ris< and fall of the tide, so that the bridge end will always be flush with. the motor ierry ateamer'a deck.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 185, 26 October 1927, Page 13
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137BRIDGE FOR TRAFFIC Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 185, 26 October 1927, Page 13
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