Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,394 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Callender-Hamilton Bridges

From Graces Guide

The Callender-Hamilton bridge is a modular portable pre-fabricated Warren truss bridge, designed for both temporary and permanent applications. Assembly takes much longer than for the Bailey Bridge as it uses individual lengths of steel sections connected by numerous bolts, rather than pin-jointed panels.

The system was designed by the New Zealand engineer, Archibald Milne Hamilton, and patented by him in 1935. Bridges on this system are currently fabricated by Painter Brothers, Hereford, operating within the Balfour Beatty Power Networks Division.

The above information is condensed from the Wikipedia entry.

1937 Description of tests made by the Royal Engineer Experimental Bridging Establishment, Christchurch, Hants, on a 140-ft. double-truss bridge made on the Callender-Hamilton unit construction System.[1]

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