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Conference Paper

Author
Wyatt, Ken.
Title
Ralph Symonds' Plywood Factory
In
Second Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage, Auckland, 14-16 February, 2000: Proceedings
Imprint
Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand, 2000, pp. 243-248
ISBN/ISSN
0980960352
Url
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.911171908645597
Abstract

In 1958 Ralph Symonds Ltd was a company which had a high reputation for the production of timber products, notably structural plywood and glue-laminated beams Its Chairman, Mr Ralph Symonds, was a creative innovator, who was fired with a belief in the structural potential of his products. The Company obtained a lease on a large industrial site and proceeded to erect several unique buildings thereon, one of which became renowned as the largest of its type in the world. The paper provides a fairly detailed description of the buildings, together with a brief discussion of the circumstances in which they were constructed.

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