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Title:
Plan and elevation of Clifton Suspension Bridge and elevations of towers
Object name(s):
Velograph tracing
Brief description:
Drawing is annotated "Superseded by D.E.P."
Collection:
Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
Number of objects:
1 velograph tracing
Object name:
Velograph tracing
Object number:
GB 3493 T/2/4/2/2/3
Object production date:
Feb-70
Date - association:
Creation
Date - earliest / single:
01/02/1970
Date - latest:
01/03/1970
Object production person:
Howard Humphreys & Sons
Person's biographical note:
Howard Humphreys entered into practice as a consulting engineer with Trant Brown in 1899. In 1911 Henry Howard Humphreys took one of his sons, Cecil Lee Howard Humphreys (1893 - 1941), into the firm and his second son, Guy Howard Humphreys (1896 - 1951), in 1918. In 1930, upon his father's death, Cecil Lee Howard Humphreys succeeded as senior partner to the firm. With his brother - Guy - he authored a book entitled *The Training of a Civil Engineer* (1932). In the 1980s Howard Humphreys was bought by Brown & Root, which became Halliburton, then Kellogg Brown & Root and at the time of writing (2020) is now KBR. Howard Humphreys continued to act as consultant engineers for the bridge until 2006.
Other number:
2.057.0 Drawing No. 150 Rev. F
Other number type:
Consultant engineer's reference code
Responsible department/section:
Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
Text reason:
Collection online record

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/98646bbf-fa47-3072-95a4-bf4c4720f875

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/98646bbf-fa47-3072-95a4-bf4c4720f875, Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum, CC BY

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