prefabrication
6 photos tagged prefabrication, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.
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Related tags
Tags that often appear on the same photos:
- construction
- ship
- shipyard
- blackandwhitephotograph
- maritimeheritage
- industry
- vessel
- structure
- unusual
- workers
- debris
- crane
- sandiegoprestressedconcretecompany
- prestressedconcrete
- engineering
- rohr
- 09161971
- sunderland
- digitalimage
- industrialheritage
- abstract
- development
- ground
- sky
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Recent uploads
The last upload was 25 February.
26_0069717 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded 25 February
26_0069718 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded 25 February
26_0069719 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded 25 February
Manoeuvring prefabricated sections at Readhead's shipyard from North East Museums uploaded January 2016
The pre-fabrication shed, North Sands shipyard from North East Museums uploaded January 2015
Shipyard workers at Bartram & Sons, Sunderland from North East Museums uploaded December 2014
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Manoeuvring prefabricated sections at Readhead's shipyard
from North East Museums
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optimal chicken said:
It staggers me that they achieved the correct angles and shapes to create a balanced and equal shaped ship like this. They were designed using slide rules and paper yet made them to a very high standard - real skills.
26_0069719 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
This construction site appears to be on the north side of Imperial Avenue near 15th Street in San Diego. The pole line along the street in the background may be along Imperial Avenue. You can help by posting comments if this is wrong. You can also add tags if you see something in this scene that some guy using a search engine could be looking for.
26_0069717 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
This series is believed to have been shot about 7 months after Rohr acquired this line of business.
San Diego Prestressed Concrete Company was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rohr (1975 annual report). The company first filed corporate filings 07/23/1953. Corporate filings suggest Rohr bought the company on 02/04/1971. On that date, the address filed was, "850 Lagoon Dr., Chula Vista." It seems like they diversified too widely...