Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2016
Date 18-Mar
Volume 216
Issue 4,530
Page 456
Category An Engineer's Day Out
Part
Title London's Docklands East of Tower Bridge
Author Roger Backhouse
Notes Tours some interesting but less visited areas of the capital. Sir John Rennie, St. Katherine's Dock Hardwick building, sailing barges, London Docks footpath, dockland hydraulic power, Wapping, London Hydraulic Power Company, hydraulic crane, 'jigger', Thomas Telford's retractable bridge, Dutch style drawbridge, moving bridges, lifting bridge, double swing bridge, Scherzer type rolling bascule, Deptford's vertical lift bridge, William Perkin (Cable Street), Canary Wharf development and the Docklands LR