Genre: Historical Events Gale writes (see notes in Introduction): 'The timber staging was made of teak, which was subsequently cut up for bridge sleepers, and the roadway longitudinals and footpaths...The teak trestles were 53 feet high, and weighed 28 tons each...'. Subjects = bridge buildin...
Bag Cofferdam for Founding Pier No 3, [Curzon Bridge construction, Allahabad]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Gale writes (see notes in Introduction): 'Where the piers were in a sandbank the water could be reduced by about 3 feet by baling with baskets after the method employed by the natives in irrigating their fields. A sand-bag coffer-dam was used in such cases, the sand-bag...
Genre: Historical Events Gales writes (see notes in Introduction): '[The timber staging] was heavy and cumbersome to erect, but it was found that, once erected on the sandbank, the trestle could be pulled out from under the girder and dragged along on rails bedded on balks of timber to the next...
Piling Timber Cofferdam, Well No 2, [Curzon Bridge construction, Allahabad]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Gale writes (see notes in Introduction): 'As soon as it was apparant, from the continuous rain reported by the Meteorological Department at Mussoorie, that no fall of the water-level was to be expected, it was decided to constuct a timber coffer-dam [round Pier No 2]'. ...