Dorman Long Article

I was in Sydney last week and visited the Harbour Bridge museum, but I was left with the feeling that the very conspicuous Dorman Long involvement in its construction was played down.

I'm not ashamed to say I'm proud that a company from Teesside was so central to creating such an iconic bridge, but sad also that that legacy of heavy industry, engineering and the steel works has since died out.
 
We were in Sri Lanka about 6 years ago and stayed in an old tea plantation hotel.
The lift shaft had a plaque devoted to Dorman Long - had a great chat with the owner once I told him the connection
 
1finny said:
We were in Sri Lanka about 6 years ago and stayed in an old tea plantation hotel.
The lift shaft had a plaque devoted to Dorman Long - had a great chat with the owner once I told him the connection
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Same here! The entire steel structure of the tea house (now hotel) was DL steel.
 
I noticed it was on a lot of the bridges across the Danube in Budapest. I believe the Germans and the Fascist Hungarians blow all the bridges in Budapest to halt the Russians and Hungarian communists. The battle for Budapest for the second biggest of WW2 in Europe. The Dorman Long bridges must have been strong enough to survive and be rebuilt after the War. Some images below

https://www.bing.com/images/search?...f+budapest+1944-45&ajaxhist=0&ajaxserp=0&vt=0
 
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