Published Resources Details
Book Section
- Title
- Loder, Sir Louis Francis (1896 - 1972), civil engineer and public servant
- In
- Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie
- Imprint
- Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000, pp. 112-113
- Url
- https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/loder-sir-louis-francis-10849/
- Format
- Description
Published online in 2006.
- Abstract
Quotes:
"At the C.R.B. [Victorian Country Roads Board], Loder helped to design and supervise the building of bridges, including a timber structure, 295 ft (90 m) long, at Echuca, and another of steel and timber, some 300 ft (91 m) in length, at Stratford. Promoted highway engineer (1925), he oversaw the development of hundreds of miles of cheap, bituminized roads suitable for heavy traffic. He was promoted again in 1928, to chief engineer, and held this post until he was appointed chairman of the board in 1940. "
"In February 1945 Loder was appointed director-general of the Commonwealth Department of Works (Department of Works and Housing from July 1945 to June 1952) with responsibility for the design, costing, supervision and execution of all architectural and engineering works for the Federal government. He saw the completion (1945) of the Captain Cook Graving Dock in Sydney Harbour, the building (from 1947) of the rocket range at Woomera, South Australia, and the start (1961) of construction of the 'beef' roads programme in northern Australia. Loder chaired the joint Commonwealth-States technical committee which reported in 1948 and 1949 on the proposed Snowy Mountains project, and the committee which investigated the Western Australian comprehensive water-supply scheme. In 1950-61 he was deputy-commissioner representing the Commonwealth on the River Murray Commission."