A classic design of hangar
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A classic design of hangar
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 17 Oct 2017
This is the new home for Aerospace Bristol Collection - a new £19m museum dedicated to the many thousands of products and innovations created here in Bristol for over a century. The hangar is in fact a veteran dating from 1917-18 and is a 'Belfast truss' type. The Northern Irish company McTear began making wooden lattice trusses that were simple to produce but capable of carrying a load over a very wide span. This made the design ideal for the new hangars that sprang up at the dawn of aviation in the early 1900s. Inside, the museum has made every effort to expose the original brick columns and wooden trusses, with the necessary improvement of a modern cladding roof. It is Grade II listed; see Image] for a look at the side.
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Image Location
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51.523066
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-2.578653