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Dorman Long & Co. Ltd. - Sketch Book

Catalogue reference: BS/DL/7/5/4/1

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BS/DL/7/5/4/1
Title
Dorman Long & Co. Ltd. - Sketch Book
Date
c 1930
Description

Album containing copies of sketches by Keesey featuring buildings and bridges built by Dorman Long (or which their steelwork was used). Each of the sketches are complete with a small amount of text giving background information to the construction. The sketches included are;
1. Imperial Chemical House (I.C.I.), Millbank, London; designed by Sir Frank Baines.
2. Lloyd's 'New Building', London, designed by Sir Edwin Cooper.
3. The Bank of England, London, designed by Dr Oscar Faber.
4. The Strand Palace Hotel, Strand, London.
5. The 'News of the World' Offices.
6. India House, Aldwych, London, designed by Sir Herbert Baker.
7. The Lambeth Bridge, London, designed by Sir George Humphreys.
8. Warehouses in the Argentine, Buenos Aires.
9. British India Steam Navigation Company Offices, Calcutta.
10. The Rangoon Law courts, Rangoon, Burma.
11. Sassoon House, Shanghai.
12. The Limpopo Bridge, South Africa.
13. The Khartoum-Omdurman Bridge, Sudan.
14. The Dessouk Bridge, Egypt.

Held by
Teesside Archives
Legal status
Not Public Record(s)
Physical description
1 volume
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/e93495bc-5ecc-44f8-a68b-e22fd268a332/

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BS/DL/7

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