&Alm. Contracts for Forth Road Bridge. .
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CONTRACTS :totalling nearly Wm. for the fit'st two stages of die construction of the Forth road bridge were signed last Friday. Work will_ start within
a fortnight. The tenders have to be approved by the Secretary of State for Scotland.
The first stage comprises the construction of the foundations, anchorages of the main cables of the suspension bridge. and the tvim sick towers, at a cost of £2.25m. This will be followed by the construction of the bridge itself, at a cost of £8.66m.
The bridge, which will be the largest of its kind outside America, will have a Main span of 3,300 ft. There will be two 24-ft. carriageways, aS well as cycle tracks, and footpaths. More than 30,000 tons of.
steel will be required. • Contracts worth more than £5.5m. for the construction of the apprdach viaducts and the 12 miles, of approach roads have
yet to be let. • Some 70 per cent, of the total coiof the bridge must.be recovered by tolls. , . OBITUARY • •
WE regret to record the death. of: MR..
varY THOMAS KERSHAW. Mr. Kershaw, who was 58; was a director of Wilson and Stockall, Ltd., bodybuilders. Bury.