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Phoenix Bridge Co.
| Name | Phoenix Bridge Co. |
| Ortssitz | Philadelphia (Penns.) |
| Straße | Walnut Street 410 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Brückenbauanstalt |
| Anmerkungen | Vormals "Clark, Reeves & Co.". Die Verwaltung ist in der Walnut Street. |
| Quellenangaben | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 109] |
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| ZEIT | 1891 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | Recently known as "The Phoenixville Bridge Works", and formerly conducted by "Clark, Reeves & Co.", have perfected arrangements with the "Phoenix Iron Company", which gives them new facilities for concentrating the productive plants of that Company upon the construction of bridges, roofs, viaducts, etc. The present capacity of the Company thus reaches an annual amount of thirty thousand to thirty-five thousand tons of finished material. They have facilities for increase if required. No material is admitted in the construction of the Company except that of the very best quality and which by its nature is best adapted to the resisting of the stress acting upon it. There is a careful study in
each case of all the circumstances applying thereto and all parts to the smallest detail, are designed to enable them to exert the resisting capacity of the metal in the simplest and most advantageous manner. The quality of the material of the Phoenix Bridge Company is completely under its own control, as essentially it is all produced by the Phoenix Iron Company; thus every part of the process of production is so adjusted to the others, that any quality of material best adapted to any particular construction may be secured with certainty. On the first of May, 1891, there were on hand orders amounting in weight to 16,000 tons. Among these, were the bridge spanning the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky, and one crossing the Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa. Each of these bridges will have a great length of span, from 550 to 553 feet. They have also under construction a viaduct over 2000 feet in length which will be 350 feet in height. Among other important constructions of this firm are the Manhattan and Suburban Elevated Railways of New York City, The King's County Elevated and The Fulton Elevated Railways of Brooklyn, New York, the Merchant's Terminal of St. Louis, the Short Line Elevated at Louisville, Kinzua Viaduct, Bridge over the Mississippi River at Keithsburg, I11., Rondout Bridge on West Shore Railroad and the Cincinnati and Ohio Bridge at Cincinnati, Ohio. The latter bridge has the longest and heaviest pin span known - 550 feet, being for double track railway and double line of roadway, and street car as well as sidewalks. Also the bridge over the Colorado River at Needles, West California, which is the longest cantilever span in the United States. The officers are. David Reeves, President; Adolphus Bonzano, Vice-President and Chief Engineer; W. H. Reeves, General Superintendent; and Frank T. Davis, Treasurer. The offices are located at No. 410 Walnut street, Philadelphia, No. 49 William street, New York, and there are agencies in Kansas City, Mo., London, England, and Sydney, Australia. |
| QUELLE | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 109] |
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