Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Ordish and Le Feuvre

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of 18 Great George Street, Westminster

Rowland Mason Ordish and William Henry Le Feuvre.

Bridge, roof, and other constructional engineering.

Proposed an early cable-stayed design for the Albert Bridge over the River Thames in London which Ordish had patented in 1858. Ordish's design resembled a conventional suspension bridge in employing a parabolic cable to support the centre of the bridge, but differed in its use of 32 inclined stays to support the remainder of the load.

Designed the building for the 1862 London Exhibition

1867 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Rowland Mason Ordish and William Henry Le Feuvre, of No. 18, Great George-street, in the city of Westminster, Civil Engineers, was dissolved...'[1]


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