West Gate

West Gate

$20.00 AUD

Availability: in stock at our Tullamarine warehouse

Condition: SECONDHAND

This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.

Author: Bill Hitchings
Binding: Paperback
Published: Outback Press Melbourne, 1979

Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: minor wear and foxing of outside cover; binding beginning to crack from inside; pages in good condition

From the back cover: 'West Gate tells the full story about Australia's most controversial disaster. The West Gate Bridge started off as an engineering dream and ended in tragedy, political chaos, and financial farce. When the bridge collapsed in October 1970, a plethora of political back biting, union-management conflits, and environmental conflicts rocketed to the surface... Melbourne Herald reporter Bill Hitchings covered the collapse of the bridge, the subsequent Royal Commission, and all the stormy events leading to the final opening of the bridge in 1978.'

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Description

Author: Bill Hitchings
Binding: Paperback
Published: Outback Press Melbourne, 1979

Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: minor wear and foxing of outside cover; binding beginning to crack from inside; pages in good condition

From the back cover: 'West Gate tells the full story about Australia's most controversial disaster. The West Gate Bridge started off as an engineering dream and ended in tragedy, political chaos, and financial farce. When the bridge collapsed in October 1970, a plethora of political back biting, union-management conflits, and environmental conflicts rocketed to the surface... Melbourne Herald reporter Bill Hitchings covered the collapse of the bridge, the subsequent Royal Commission, and all the stormy events leading to the final opening of the bridge in 1978.'