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THE Report of the Court of Inquiry appointed to investigate the circumstances of the fall of the Tay Bridge last December has now been made public. There appears to be some difference of opinion amongst the members of the court respecting the scope of the inquiry and the duties placed upon them by the Board of Trade, in consequence of which two separate reports appear together, one by Col. Yolland, Chief Government Inspector of Railways, and Mr. Barlow, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the other by Mr. Rothery, the Wreck Commissioner. The former report describes in detail the design and method of erection adopted in the bridge, giving also a description of the various alterations in the plan which were rendered necessary as the work progressed.
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The Tay Bridge . Nature 22, 213–214 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022213a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/022213a0