The Quebec Bridge, an Engineering Triumph in the World's History: The Connecting Link Between the Canadian Government Railways North and South of the St. Lawrence, Its History and Its Future (Classic Reprint)
The Quebec Bridge, an Engineering Triumph in the World's History: The Connecting Link Between the Canadian Government Railways North and South of the St. Lawrence, Its History and Its Future (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Quebec Bridge, an Engineering Triumph in the World's History: The Connecting Link Between the Canadian Government Railways North and South of the St. Lawrence, Its History and Its Future The Board made very exhaustive studies of various possible designs, both suspension and cantilever. Tenders were called on cantilever de signs with invitation to submit alternative tenders on the bidders' own designs. One German, one English, and one American firm bid on the Board's designs, but the St. Lawrence Bridge ...
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Excerpt from The Quebec Bridge, an Engineering Triumph in the World's History: The Connecting Link Between the Canadian Government Railways North and South of the St. Lawrence, Its History and Its Future The Board made very exhaustive studies of various possible designs, both suspension and cantilever. Tenders were called on cantilever de signs with invitation to submit alternative tenders on the bidders' own designs. One German, one English, and one American firm bid on the Board's designs, but the St. Lawrence Bridge Company bid only on their own alternative K-truss designs. And received the contract. The Government had invited both the Dominion and Canadian bridge companies to tender on the new Quebec bridge. But it was thought that if the Canadian bridge companies were to present a solid front In the bidding - in other words. To pool their organizations. Experience and facilities - that Canada would have a better chance of being success in] In the bidding. And the Canadian Bridge Com pany therefore joined with the Dominion Bridge Company as joint owners of the capital stock of the St. Lawrence Bridge Company, and the only bids made by any Canadian firm were submitted In the name of the St. Lawrence Bridge Company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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