ABSTRACT
What had happened? “On Monday, 1 November, 1965, during severe westerly wind conditions, three of eight cooling tower shells, all of which had been completed, collapsed at the Ferrybridge “C” Power Station. (Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, UK, Authors pers. comm.) Tower 1B collapsed at about 10.30 a.m., Tower 1A about 10 min later and Tower 2A at 11.20 a.m. Each of the eight towers was 375 ft high with a base diameter of 300 ft and with shells 5 in. thick … (Fig. 20). They were sited in a staggered arrangement in two parallel rows 350 ft apart.
