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Journal Article

Author
Bickford, C. R.
Title
The development of the Port of Sydney.
In
Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
Imprint
vol. 29, no. 4-5, Apr-May 1957, pp. 113-125
ISBN/ISSN
0020-3319
Description

This paper, No. 1279, originated in the Sydney Division of The Institution, and was presented before a General Meeting of the Division on 8th November, 1956.

The author, C. R. Bickford MIEAust, is Engineer-in-Chief, Maritime Services Board of New South Wales.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to follow the development of the Port of Sydney, confining itself mainly, but not wholly, to the thirty years that have elapsed since a paper on this subject was presented to The Institution. This was in 1927, when the then Engineer-in-Chief of the Sydney Harbour Trust (later to become merged in the Maritime Services Board of N.S.W.), Mr. A. J. Debenham, presented a paper on the Port of Sydney.

The author of that paper stated in his introduction that he "limited himself to a general account dealing with the larger aspects of its progress and administration." Some historical notes were appended, while many aspects of future trends in the development of the Port were studied and some predictions of future progress were made by the author, in addition to a description of the Port works then completed or in hand.

It is the intention in this paper to supplement the historical notes and to review such accounts and predictions given and made in the previous paper as are of interest in the light of the actual construction as it resulted in the development of the Port during the intervening 30 years, and then to give some account of the main features of the development itself and the future schemes that are being considered.

The Port of Sydney, represents in a very unique sense the start of civilisation in Australia, and this great City of Sydney, with its population approaching 2,000,000 persons, owes its importance and dominance to the fact that it has grown up around a great port, richly endowed by nature, a fact that is frequently lost sight of.

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