The Gladesville Bridge part 2

Expressway over the water. The Building of the Gladesville Bridge Part 2, duration 21 min 30 sec.

[@DavidCaldwell1]

Great upload. Thank you. If you have the 16mm films, I'd suggest sending them to the National Film and Sound Archives for a professional telecine. Videoing the screen is better than nothing, but a lot more quality could be extracted from this (both visual and audio)- it would be a shame to lose the opportunity to get it in the archive.

[@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb]

Thanks for posting. Very well-done series.

[@davidcarr2649]

This demands a 3rd video, showing completion of the deck and finishing of the bridge. Along with road surfacing and bridge opening.

[@stephenspreckley8219]

Agreed and please without that awful bloody muzak!

[@29brendus]

I can just imagine the Health & safety boffins watching this video and having a fit. As an engineer myself, who has done considerable work for the DMR (then the RTA, and lately the RMS), I can assure you that 80% of all the health & safety regulations are nonsense, just driving up the cost of projects for western countries, and slowing down the work unbearably. Load of bloody nonsense! It was gtreat to see the guys here riding the cement buckets and enjoying the sunshine, instead of hours and hours of 'induction'. YOU alone are responsible for your own safety!

[@petert24turner71]

Not a lot of regard to safety in those days. Today would be Hi vis, helmets, safety boots etc. No wonder so many died on early projects.

[@dieseldavetrains8988]

I wonder with todays engineering and construction technology would the construction time be drastically reduced? Be interesting to know how many houses were compulsory acquired and demolished for the bridge construction on both sides of the river. I wonder if any colourful Sydney crime figures "disappeared" and ended up in one of those concrete pours?

[@purana80]

I wonder if the people working on it knew just how much it would improve everyones travel times in the years that followed..