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Volume 6, Issue 15, January 1948

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FIRST STAGES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE JAN SMUTS AIRPORT, JOHANNESBURG. AIRPORT ENGINEERING DIVISION.
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- pp. 1–28
- Authors: W R GREATHEAD; R D HAWKINS
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/idivp.1948.12990
- THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. AIRPORT ENGINEERING DIVISION. FIRST STAGES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE JAN SMUTS AIRPORT,JOHANNESBURG," " BY WALTER ROBINSON GREATHEAD, O.B.E., B.&., M.I.C.E., AND ROBERTDRAKEHAWKINS, B.Sc.,A.M.I.C.E. Session 1947-1948 LONDON: 1EtutiliefJeb bp &be Hnetifution of &ibiI %ngineaa, GREAT GEORGE STREET, WESTMINSTER, S.W.1. [TELEQRAHS : "INSTITUTION, LONDON.'.TELEPHONE:WHITEHaLL 4577."] `` 1948...
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DISCUSSION. FIRST STAGES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE JAN SMUTS AIRPORT, JOHANNESBURG. AIRPORT ENGINEERING DIVISION.
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- pp. 29–45
- Authors: J V COOK; J A DAWSON; J B F HAWKINS; L J MURDOCK; H W W POLLITT; E A TURNER; W G HARRIS
- Document Type: Discussion
- DOI: 10.1680/idivp.1948.12991
- CONSTRUCTION OF THE JAN SMUTS AIRPORT, JOHANNESBURG. 29 Discussion. Mr. J. V. Cook, who introduced the Paper in the absence of the Authors, said that he had visited the site in September 1946, when the work was in its very early stages. The Authors had explained, in the Paper, that the importance of the Jan Smuts airfield lay in the fact that would serve as the main terminal it for the trunk route services to the Union of South Africa. There were two main routes from Europe SouthAfrica, namely, the Eastern" all red," or to rather `` all-pink," route through Egypt, the Sudan, and Kenya, and the trans-Sahara West Coast route, which made use of staging posts in British, Prench, and Belgian territory...

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ICE Engineering Division Papers

Volume 6, Issue 15, January 1948

FIRST STAGES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE JAN SMUTS AIRPORT, JOHANNESBURG. AIRPORT ENGINEERING DIVISION.

DISCUSSION. FIRST STAGES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE JAN SMUTS AIRPORT, JOHANNESBURG. AIRPORT ENGINEERING DIVISION.