Golden Gate Bridge wanted it to be painted with black and yellow stripes to ensure visibility by passing ships. Senior engineer Charles Alton Ellis, collaborating remotely with Moisseiff, was the principal engineer of the project. Moisseiff produced the basic structural design, introducing his "deflection theory" by which a thin, flexible roadway would flex in the wind, greatly reducing stress by transmitting forces via suspension cables to the bridge towers. Although the Golden Gate Bridge design has proved sound, a later Moisseiff design, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, collapsed in a strong windstorm soon after it was completed, because of an unexpected aeroelastic flutter.
Friar Gate Bridge subject of the duo Flanagan and Allen's best known song "Underneath the Arches", referring to the homeless men who slept there during the Great Depression. According to a television programme broadcast in 1957, Bud Flanagan said that he wrote the song in Derby in 1927, and first performed it a week later at the Pier Pavilion, Southport. Friar Gate Bridge Friar Gate Bridge, also known as Handyside Bridge after the company that built it, is a railway bridge at the end of Friar Gate in the centre of Derby in the East Midlands of England. The bridge is a remnant