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Dorman Long & Co. Ltd. - Contract Progress Photograph Album of Kafr-El-Zayat Railway...

Catalogue reference: BS/DL/7/2/3/1/10

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BS/DL/7/2/3/1/10
Title
Dorman Long & Co. Ltd. - Contract Progress Photograph Album of Kafr-El-Zayat Railway Bridge, Egypt
Date
1947 - 1949
Description

Album containing B&W photographs of improvements to the Kafr-El-Zayat Railway Bridge, Egypt from 1947 to 1949. Begun in 1852, the original Bridge opened to Kafr-el-Zayat in 1854. Each image is accompanied by a date and caption detailing the content of the image. Images include: Views of the site and Bridge from the roof of a house. Workers shelter, Workers operating and observing machinery, Workers and Donkeys on sand Causeways, Workers posing amongst shuttering, a working chamber of Caisson, next to a Pier reinforcement and a fixed and grouted Pivot. Two images of The Chief Engineer's Party during a site visit. Also, various crane accidents.

Held by
Teesside Archives
Legal status
Not Public Record(s)
Physical description
1 Volume
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/8f052d9a-4650-48e0-b3b2-45125580e36c/

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BS/DL/7

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