Sujet

Westway Flyover, A40, Paddington, City of Westminster, London, c1969. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

Westway Flyover, A40, Paddington, City of Westminster, London, c1969. Two workers stressing the longitudinal soffit cables inside the box section of the deck units of the Westway Flyover. The individual deck units of the flyover are tied together with steel cables and only when these are stressed and tightened does each span act as a single self-supporting structure. Each span of the flyover contains 53 km of cabling. The cables are each made up of twelve 16 mm thick strands.

Date

1969

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM22A18_388

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

100,5Mo (6,2Mo) / 56,4cm x 44,7cm / 6661 x 5275 (300dpi)

Mots clés

road building England people male work job man men cable cables engineering worker country construction guy occupation British English headdress color location infrastructure century flyover Britain profession hard hat construction worker concept civil engineering headgear head-dress Sixties Colour Construction Industry 1960s 20th century workers working photograph road building A40 Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc roadbuilding John Laing & Co John Laing and Company John Laing & Company John Laing and Co Westway