Bridge tests
18th June 1971, Page 34
18th June 1971
Page 34
Page 34, 18th June 1971
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at Wallasey
• Thirty 24-ton lorries rumbled over two Wallasey bridges last weekend as part of a stringent safety check, costing .£10,000.
The bridges are over the second Mersey Tunnel, due to be opened later this month by the Queen. They are of the steel box girder type, and the tests, carried out by the Department of the Environment, were to check their strength.
The tests were ordered pending the introduction of new standards for the design of steel box girder type bridges, as a result of a fatal accident last year.
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