The Strauss Bascule Bridge Company, Inc., engineers and designers of trunnion, bascule and direct lift bridges. (1920)
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ation, but the advantage andeconomy of dispensing with false work in thechannel were sufficiently important to weigh infavor of erecting the bridge in the manner illus-trated. A view of the bridge in the final stageof completion is shown on the frontispiece ofthis catalogue. Fig. 26 illustrates the… … The new bridge was built in theopen position, the counterweightbeing designed to clear the rail-way traffic in the open position(illustrating the method in usebefore the development of thewing counterweight system pre-viously described) ; the sections ofthe trusses and floor system werehoisted into…
Bridges · Bascule bridge · Double-swing bridge
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