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- Joined
- Jul 20, 2005
- Location
- Newcastle, Australia
I see a lot of interesting things in my wanderings around Australia.
I recently saw this nice little steel bridge on a country road;
Closer examination showed a maker's plate, proudly displayed;
The assembly was part-rivetted and part-bolted; fairly clearly a pre-fabricated design.
Now how did this cute little bridge find its way from the US to Australia in or some time after 1916?
Google produced several results for the company, including some post-WW1 war reparation stuff and this very good read;
Lewis L. McArthur | Oregon Places: The U.S. Steel Corporation in Portland, 1901–1941 | Oregon Historical Quarterly, 107.3 | The History Cooperative
that tells us (not far down the page) that the company was a division of the mighty US Steel Corp.
I thought our US members might be interested in this.
I recently saw this nice little steel bridge on a country road;
Closer examination showed a maker's plate, proudly displayed;
The assembly was part-rivetted and part-bolted; fairly clearly a pre-fabricated design.
Now how did this cute little bridge find its way from the US to Australia in or some time after 1916?
Google produced several results for the company, including some post-WW1 war reparation stuff and this very good read;
Lewis L. McArthur | Oregon Places: The U.S. Steel Corporation in Portland, 1901–1941 | Oregon Historical Quarterly, 107.3 | The History Cooperative
that tells us (not far down the page) that the company was a division of the mighty US Steel Corp.
I thought our US members might be interested in this.
