This month's topic is Building The Arch. All are welcome to come hear guest speaker Bill Phippen, a qualified civil engineer who late in his career moved into history and engineering heritage.
Although the transformation of Sydney’s public transport in the 1920s was a city-wide project, the single aspect which caught the public’s attention was the building of the bridge across the harbour. From late 1928 until August 1930, the people of the city watched the two halves of the arch reach out from north and south, hoping that the engineers knew what they were doing and that the steel arms would meet in the middle. This talk looks specifically at just the building of the arch and the sophisticated creeper cranes which made it all happen.