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]'. ...
Founding Pier No 2 six feet below water level in centre of cold weather channel within Timber Cofferdam, [Curzon Bridge construction, Allahabad]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Subjects = bridge building; civil engineering; Curzon Collection; Public Works Department Location = Allahabad; India; Uttar Pradesh