Forth Rail Bridge
£1,300
Books, Maps, Photographs & Manuscripts
Auction: 12 July 2005 at 13:00 BST
Description
Plan & Section: four sheets comprising a title sheet and three maps detailing the planned course of the railway, in original printed wrappers, laid down on linen, some light dust soiling, November 1881, Engineers: John Fowler [Engineer-in-chief] & B. Baker, 100cm by 67cm;
Contract Drawings to accompany specification dated September, 1882: twenty seven sheets comprising one title sheet and twenty six numbered detailed contract drawings and plans of the structure of the bridge and its surroundings, three of which are folding, in original printed wrappers, laid down on linen, some light dust soiling, September, 1882, Engineers: John Fowler [Engineer-in-chief] & B. Baker. Some calculations, pencil sketchings and ink annotations to a few sheets; Inscription in brackets in ink on wrapper: " To be taken as an indication of the general character of this work but not as working drawings in any instance. B.B."; Inscription to the top right of front wrapper "Mr Meik's copy"
Note: Patrick Meik was an English engineer and part of a minor engineering dynasty. His father Thomas and brother Charles were also engineers, both boys were born in Crow Tree Road, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland. Patrick went to work for his father and worked on Meik's harbours at Burntisland and Bo'ness before being asked by Sir Benjamin Baker to be resident engineer [1882-1885] on the foundations and piers of the Forth Rail Bridge [designed by Baker and Sir John Fowler]. After this project he moved to London to set up his own engineering practice.
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