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Newspaper Article

Title
Designed a bridge of sighs - Allan Walton Knight
In
Smith's Weekly
Imprint
8 Jan 1944, p. 11
Url
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article235765142
Description

Includes caricature portrait

Abstract

It took a 35-45 mph "southerly buster" to bring into All-Australian
prominence Hobart's novel concrete pontoon bridge and its young designer, Allan Walton Knight, 33-year-old chief engineer of Tasmania's Public Works Department.

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