Test thermal energy for home-heating use : (Coal Age, Vol. 52, No. 1.)
✍ Scribed by R.H. Oppermann
- Book ID
- 103074628
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1947
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 68 KB
- Volume
- 244
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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✦ Synopsis
Vol. 17, No. 1.)----Traffic from England to South Wales will soon cross the lower reaches of the River Severn on a 3000-ft. main-span suspension bridge--Europe's largest--relieving congested traffic conditions farther north and permitting South Wales, a coal mining center, to develop industrially. The proposed bridge will replace a ferry--whose predecessors date back 2000 years-linking Beachley, England, with Aust in Wales.
The new bridge is to be a four-lane structure desinged to carry 4000 vehicles per hour. End spans of 1000 ft. give the bridge an overall length of 5000 ft. between anchorages. Vertical clearance provided for shipping will range from 110 ft. above high tide, near the 450-ft.-high steel towers, to a maximum of 120 ft. at the center of the main span.
Included in the project are plans for the construction.of approach roads on either side of the bridge, and a bridge over the River Wye. The entire project, including approach roads and bridges which total about 8 miles in length, will cost about 30,000,000. The new Wye Bridge is to have six spans of 150 ft., two of 175 ft. and a central span of 200 ft. R. H. OPPERMANN.