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Civil engineering and vehicles

From bridges to buoys

Span bridge made at the Thames Ironworks.

A bridge for the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, made at the Thames Ironworks. © NMM

On the civil engineering side, the company's work ranged from bridges to dock gates and from iron ships' masts for the local shipbuilders to buoys for Trinity House.

This image is of the 46 m (150 ft) span bridge made in 1901 for the Shalimar Ferry on the Bengal-Nagpur Railway in India.

Major projects

A section of the Blackwall Tunnel. © NMM

The projects undertaken at the works also included:

the iron ribs for the domes of the International Exhibition Building at South Kensington, in 1862
roofs for the Royal Aquarium in Westminster and Alexandra Palace
Blackfriars Railway Bridge (1860-69)
Hammersmith Bridge (1883-87)
sections of Sir Alexander Binnie's Blackwall Tunnel in 1895. The tunnel was more than 1300 metres (4410 feet) long and passed under the Thames to Greenwich.

Cars and lorries

Thames Ironworks Exhibition at Crystal Palace Automobile Show

The company also diversified into vehicle manufacturing. These two photographs show lorries from the Thames Ironworks exhibitions at the 1905 Crystal Palace Automobile Show and the 1906 Olympia Show.

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