Modern buildings : their planning, construction and equipment (1905)
Middleton, G. A. T. (George Alexander Thomas) · London : Caxton Publishing Company, Limited · leaf 178
ngs 160 however, shoring has to be done at short notice, and whatever timbers are available are used. Sometimes for supporting garden or retaining walls of small size a small, strongly constructed double shore of the type shown in Fig. 246 is used. The heads of these are shown to be bearing upon… … Flying Shores are such as are used to support one building from another across an intervening space ; they are frequently employed during building operations, when one house of a row has been pulled down for rebuilding. The ordinary form is shown in Fig. 247, though it is varied occasionally by the…
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