- Title:
- Thomas Airey's report on the state of the bridge to the Chairman and Directors of the Clifton Suspension Bridge Company
- Object name(s):
- Report
- Brief description:
- Airey's report of the examination of the bridge on 19 and 20 September 1883, principally concerning the state of the decking and recommending that the top of the deck be replaced with English glen timber and covered with tar and asphalt.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Associated concept:
- carriageway surfacing
- Current reproduction location:
- http://archives.cliftonbridge.org.uk/thomas-aireys-report-on-the-state-of-the-bridge-to-the-chairman-and-directors-of-the-clifton-suspension-bridge-company
- Number of objects:
- 1 item
- Object name:
- Report
- Object number:
- GB 3493 T/2/2/1883/1
- Object production date:
- 15 December 1883
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1883-12-15
- Date - latest:
- 1883-12-15
- Object production person:
- Airey, Thomas, engineer
- Person's biographical note:
- Thomas Airey was the resident engineer to Clifton Suspension Bridge during its construction, 1861-1864, and worked as a consultant engineer for the bridge in the years afterwards, at which point he appears to be living and working at times abroad. Civil engineer lists record that he was Breslan and at Aird's in Danzig (Netherlands) and at Monk Heseldon, Castle Eden Coliery Co., Durham in 1873 and in 1878 in Stockport.
- Other number:
- BM 92a
- Other number type:
- Previous identifier
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/1740fc98-9acb-34e9-bc4e-d594c818cfe3
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/1740fc98-9acb-34e9-bc4e-d594c818cfe3, Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum, CC BY
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