Transporter Bridges

aw_product_id: 
27394521559
merchant_image_url: 
https://cdn.waterstones.com/bookjackets/large/9781/5267/9781526760388.jpg
merchant_category: 
Books
search_price: 
30.00
book_author_name: 
John Hannavy
book_type: 
Hardback
publisher: 
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
published_date: 
28/02/2020
isbn: 
9781526760388
Merchant Product Cat path: 
Books > Art, Fashion & Photography > Photography & photographs > Photography collections
specifications: 
John Hannavy|Hardback|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|28/02/2020
Merchant Product Id: 
9781526760388
Book Description: 
Transporter Bridges are a legacy of the closing years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th, and served a brief but important need. The huge increase in road transport, however, quickly rendered them obsolete, and although many were planned, little more than twenty-one were ever completed across the world - five of which were in Britain. Just nine still stand in their original form and currently only five are currently still in use - one each in Spain and Germany, two in the UK, one in Argentina - unused since the 1960s, and only recently returned to service in 2018 after restoration - and the last surviving 'pont transbordeur' in France returned to service in 2019 after major works. The second of Germany's surviving transporters is currently awaiting repair after a ship collided with it. But is the transporter bridge about to undergo a surprising renaissance? Proposals exist for three new bridges, all in France - at Nantes, Marseille and Brest - to replace some of those lost during and after the Second World War. The book is illustrated in colour throughout, using hundreds of photographs - the author's own modern images and many historic photographs and postcards chronicling the construction and operation of these unusual structures.

Graphic Design by Ishmael Annobil /  Web Development by Ruzanna Hovasapyan