West Gate.
Material type: TextPublication details: Collingwood, Vic. : Outback Press, 1979Description: 172 p. : illISBN:- 0868882267
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Australian Emergency Management Library | BOOK | 624.2 HIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 900078884 |
West Gate -- Coming of age -- A plan at last -- Birth of a giant -- Omens ... but were they heeded? -- Pride before -- A graveyard of mud -- Why and how -- The reasons -- Heads start to roll -- A bridge reborn slowly -- Trouble still lingers -- Battles and barricades -- The doctor returns -- Epilogue -- Facts about West Gate
Tells the full story about Australia's most controversial disaster. The West Gate Bridge started off as an engineering dream and ended in tragedy, politcal chaos, and financial farce. When the bridge collapsed in October 1970, a plethora of political back biting, union-management conflicts, and environmental questions rocketed to the surface. This book explains why the West Gate Bridge - one of the largest box girder bridges ever built - has been the world's costliest project of its kind, and the most sensational. It is also a grim tombstone to the many lives that were lost when it collapsed
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