Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- 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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- Second Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage, Auckland, 14-16 February, 2000: Proceedings edited by Lowe, P. G.; Hill, R .F. (Auckland, New Zealand: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, 2000), 248 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0980960352. Details