The Fall of the Tay Bridge by David Swinfen

Author:David Swinfen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857903419
Publisher: Birlinn

On the question of what instructions Noble had received from the Company, Trayner asked:

– You never received instructions from them to report any default that you should discover in the structure of the bridge?

– No, I never had any such instructions.

– Had you general instructions to repair anything you might find defective without going to a superior in the company’s service?

– I never had any instructions at all . . .

‘So far as you know,’ Trayner persisted, ‘there was no one there charged at all with the duty of looking after the ironwork?’

– Not underneath the platform, but above there was.

– No one was there to look after the ironwork of the bridge as far as it stood between the top of the pier and the bottom of the platform?

– Except myself.

– You had no instructions.

– I had no instructions.

– Did any engineer make periodic visits to the bridge on behalf of the company? Was there a stated time, once a fortnight or once a week or once a month when any engineer came to look at the bridge and give it an overhaul?

– No.

– Did no one inspect the bridge from the time you went there, which was in May 1878, till its fall in December, 1879?

– No one but me.

– No one was there to judge the effect of the loosening of these bars or the proper measure to be taken to remedy these defects but yourself?

– Nobody but myself.

– Did you tell Sir Thomas Bouch at any time that you had heard this chattering of the bars, and what you had done?

– No, I never told him.

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