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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 69

Sections of Totara Piles, lent by W. Ferguson, Esq., C.E. Engineer to the Wellington Harbour Board, illustrating Durability of Timber

Sections of Totara Piles, lent by W. Ferguson, Esq., C.E. Engineer to the Wellington Harbour Board, illustrating Durability of Timber.

1139 Key to section of piles driven in 1862 and drawn in 1886.
1140 Section at D.
1141 Section at E.
1142 Section of pile, 12ft. above ground level and 6in. below bottom of sheathing; driven in 1877, at end of wool T, Queen's Wharf, and drawn in December, 1884.
1143 Tooth leaved beech slab.
1144 Model of standard 80ft. span railway bridge.page 39
1145 Photograph of road bridge over the Clutha River at Dunkeld, Otago.
Ft. in.
Length over abutments 524 0
Width of roadway 16 0
Length of main spans 115 0
Length of end spans 58 6
Height from river bed to top of main girders 74 0
Height from lowest foundations to top of main girders 44 0
Concrete, 2,354 cubic yards. Timber, 4,083 cubic feet.
Wrought iron, 159 tons.
1140 Rimu slab.
1147 Key plan, showing position of piles driven in 1862 and drawn in 1886.
1148 Section of pile between C and D.
1149 Section of sapling fender pile from inner T, Queen's Wharf; driven in 1862 and drawn in 1884.
1150 Kahikatea slab.
1151 Rimu slab.
1152 Kowhai slab.
1152A Pukatea slab.
1153 Totara (mottled), table specimen.
1154 Yellow silver pine slab.
1155 Kauri slab.
1156 Photograph of bridge over the Clutha River at Balclutha.
Ft. in.
Length over abutments 933 10
Width, centres of trusses 15 0
Length of spans 120 0
Height from river bed to top of trusses 60 0
Height from lowest foundation to top of trusses 121 0
Masonry, 590 cubic yards. Wrought iron, 200 tons.
Concrete, 1,900 cubic yards. Timber, 17,331 cubic feet.
Cast iron, 590 tons.
1157 Lithograph of akiraho foliage.
1158 Lithograph of tumatukuru foliage.
1159 Lithograph of pointed leaved beech foliage.
1160 Maire-rau-nui (black maire) slab.
1161 Rewarewa (honeysuckle) slab.
1162 Lithograph of whauwhi (lacebark) foliage.
1163 Puriri slab.