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50 years ago: Cable spinning for the Forth Road Bridge
Taken from Building With Steel, May 1962 On 17 November 1961 the first four wires of the cables on the new Forth Road Bridge were hauled over the tops of the …
50 Years Ago: Building a new factory over an existing one
From Building With Steel, February 1962 A new factory storehouse, intended to replace a smaller building, was partially erected over the existing building …
50 Years Ago: Structural Steelwork for railways
From Building with Steel, November 1961 As the massive modernisation programme of British Railways gathers momentum, the old familiar steam locomotive gives …
50 Years Ago: Overseas Buildings in Steel
From Building with Steel, August 1961
50 Years Ago: A cinema under the stars
First published in BUILDING WITH STEEL, May 1961 All welded steel structure for supporting the cinema screen of a new ‘drive-in’ cinema in Trinidad. Set …
50 Years Ago: A Monitor Roof using Castella Beams
From Building with Steel, May 1961 Castella beams are used to considerable advantage in the roof construction of a very large Design Office which forms part of …
50 Years Ago: Steel for Ecclesiastical Buildings
From Building with Steel, May 1961 Temples and, later, churches were probably the world’s first architect designed buildings. Art flourishes best when …
50 Years Ago: Outstanding Buildings in Steel
Recently completed buildings from Building with Steel, February 1961
50 Years Ago: Steel’s contribution to the Oil and Petro-Chemical Industries
FROM BUILDING WITH STEEL, FEBRUARY 1961 Steel, in one form or another, is used more extensively than any other metal in practically every branch of the oil and …
50 Years Ago: Structural steelwork up on the farm
From Building with Steel, May 1960 Despite the quiet revolution which has turned Britain’s agricultural industry into the most highly mechanised one in the …
