Bordeaux. Le pont transbordeur

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Bridge-transporter in Bordeaux would have to be the largest structure of this design, developed by engineer Ferdinand Arnodinom. If span length of 400 m and a height of 95 m pylons carriage located at an altitude of 45 m above the embankment. He had to carry pedestrians, cars and tram cars with a total load of up to 50 tons. Suspension planned platform 10 m in width and 13 m in length. Moving to the other side was to last for two minutes at a speed of 12 km / h, which would allow you to make six trips per hour "round-trip".Stroitelstvo began September 19, 1910 and was interrupted for the first time in 1914, during the First World War. Until 1918, when the construction finally stopped, managed to build only two pylons. After the war, we tried to find financing, but in vain, so in 1938 the mayor of Adrien Marquet announced refusal to completion mosta.18 August 1942 the German authorities blew up the pylons, dropping metallolom.