Finding Aid to the Tudor Engineering Company Records, 1933-2006
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Finding Aid to the Tudor Engineering Company Records, 1933-2006
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2007/134
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Bancroft Library staff
- Date Completed:
-
April 2008
© 2008 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Collection Summary
Collection Title: Tudor Engineering Company records
Date (inclusive): 1933-2006
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2007/134
Creators :
Tudor Engineering Company
Extent:
Number of containers: 6 Cartons
Linear feet: 7.5
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: Contains records of the major engineering projects of the Tudor
Engineering Company, including work on the Golden Gate Bridge, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
system, Tagus River Bridge and others. The Tudor Engineering Company records also include
reports and statements documenting the history of the company's evolution through financial
records, personnel records, and various promotional brochures.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite
and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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of California, Berkeley, 94720-6000. Consent is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Tudor Engineering Company Records, BANC MSS 2007/134, The
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Alternate Forms Available
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Separated Material
Photographs have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library,
BANC PIC 2007.029--PIC Printed materials have been transferred to the book collection of
The Bancroft Library.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Tudor Engineering
Company--Archives
Bay Area Rapid Transit
Merced Irrigation District
Bridges--California--San Francisco Bay--Design
and construction
Bridges--Portugal--Tagus River--Design and
construction
Dams--California--Merced River--Design and
construction
Engineering firms--California
Golden Gate Bridge (San
Francisco, Calif.)
New Exchequer Dam (Calif.)
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
(Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
Promotional materials.
Newsletters.
Pamphlets.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The Tudor Engineering Company Records were given to The Bancroft Library by Robert
Janopaul on March 12, 2007.
Accruals
Additions are expected.
System of Arrangement
Arranged to the container level.
Processing Information
Processed by Bancroft Library staff in 2007.
Biographical Information
The Tudor Engineering Company was founded in San Francisco in 1950 by the late Ralph A.
Tudor, a West Point graduate and retired Colonel in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Mr.
Tudor established a nationwide reputation for excellence following his involvement in the
design and construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and other bridges in the San
Francisco Bay Area.
The firm's early assignments were the design and construction management of several long
span bridges across the Colombia River between Washington and Oregon and across other major
waterways in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to highway and bridge work, the firm
developed expertise in the water resources field, including a major hydroelectric project in
the Sierra Nevada mountains of California during the mid 1950s.
In the early 1960s, Tudor Engineering played a major role in the design and construction of
the Tagus River Bridge project in Lisbon, Portugal. The firm also undertook a major
hydroelectric project for the Merced Irrigation District in California. It designed and
supervised construction of the Exchequer Dam. Located on the Merced River, it was the
highest concrete-faced rock-filled dam in the United States at the time.
The early 1960s also saw the formation of the joint venture of
Parsons-Brinkerhoff-Tudor-Bechtel (PBTB), which undertook the management of design and
construction and activities for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system.
Tudor Engineering's role in the joint venture involved civil engineering design and
construction activities, including aerial structures, several underground and above-ground
transit stations, tunnels, bridges, and several train maintenance yards. The PBTB joint
venture also undertook the design of the Caracas Metro system in Caracas, Venezuela, the
first phase of which was completed in the 1970s.
By the completion of the BART and the Caracas systems, Tudor Engineering had developed
special expertise in the design of modern rapid transit systems. Its next major transit
assignment, conducted as a joint venture with Parsons Brinkerhoff (PBT), involved serving as
the general engineering consultant for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
(MARTA) in Georgia. The PBT team began work on this project in the early 1970s.
In the mid 1970s, Tudor Engineering was one of the first consulting engineering firms to
respond to the national energy shortage with innovative technology for retrofitting existing
water resource facilities with small hydroelectric power plants. It pioneered this
technology with methodology manuals for the Corps of Engineers, the U. S. Bureau of
Reclamation, and the Electric Power Research Institute. Besides developing new innovative
technology, the firm has had the lead role in the planning, design, and construction
management of more than 30 of these hydroelectric installations through the western United
States.
In 1989 the Los Angeles office moved to Oakland, CA and Tudor Engineering Company merged
with Kaiser Engineering in Oakland.
Scope and Content of Collection
Contains records of the major engineering projects of the Tudor Engineering Company,
including work on the Golden Gate Bridge, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system, Tagus River
Bridge and others. The Tudor Engineering Company records also include reports and statements
documenting the history of the company's evolution through financial records, personnel
records, and various promotional brochures. The papers are arranged as received.
Container List
Carton 1, Folder 1
San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge - West Bay Pier construction
1933-1935
Carton 1, Folder 2
Designing and Building the Bay Bridge
1934-1937
Carton 1, Folder 3
Golden Gate Bridge Rapid Transit Investigation, report #1
1960
Carton 1, Folder 4
Golden Gate Bridge Supplementary Report on Engineering Feasibility of Proposed
Rapid Transit Facilities
1961
Carton 1, Folder 5-8
Seismic analysis of the main piers for the Tagus River Bridge
1961
Carton 1, Folder 9-10
Tagus River Bridge Piers
1965
Carton 1, Folder 11-14
Seismic Analysis of Suspension Bridge Piers
1963
Carton 1, Folder 15
Outline of talk on the planning, design, & construction, main piers of
the Tagus River Bridge
1963 Dec. 2
Carton 1, Folder 16
Tagus River Bridge Piers 3 and 4
1963
Carton 1, Folder 18
Three Rivers Bridge - Yves Lacroix
1965
Carton 1, Folder 19
Preliminary study of engineering and economic phases of bridging Puget Sound
1948-1952
Carton 1, Folder 20
Computer program for pile driving analysis by wave equation
1960
Carton 1, Folder 21
Earthquake data, Viaduct Piers, Tagus River Bridge
1961
Carton 1, Folder 22-26
Merger of Tudor Engineering into American Capital and Research Corporation
(ACR), Tudor Engineering Inc.
1989
Carton 1, Folder 27
Tudor Engineering stock/retirement plans
1964-1978
Carton 1, Folder 28
Tudor Engineering Co. by-laws
1977
Carton 1, Folder 29
Louis W. Riggs agreements
1986-1988
Carton 1, Folder 30
Personnel information
1965-1989
Carton 1, Folder 31
Personnel, administration
1986-1989
Carton 1, Folder 32
Resumes, key personnel
undated
Carton 1, Folder 33
Tudor Engineering - Bendix Computer
1958-1959
Carton 1, Folder 34
Cancelled stock certificates
1967-1985
Carton 1, Folder 35
Statements of energy operations
1984-1986
Carton 1, Folder 36
Letter to Board of Directors - Intergraph purchase
1984
Merced Irrigation District
Carton 2, Folder 1
Recreation facility
1964-1966
Carton 2, Folder 2-3
Board of Consultants meetings
1963-1967
Carton 2, Folder 6
California Dam Safety - meeting notes
1965-1967
Carton 2, Folder 7
Schedule of drawings
1964
Carton 2, Folder 11-12
New Exchequer Dam, publicity
1965-1967
Carton 2, Folder 13-14
American Society of Engineers, New York meeting
1967
Carton 2, Folder 15
New Exchequer Dam, papers for publication
1968
Carton 2, Folder 16-17
Thomas Leps papers
1985-1987
Carton 2, Folder 18
New Exchequer Dam, photographs
undated
Carton 2, Folder 23
ICF International, Inc., brochures
undated
Carton 2, Folder 24-29
Financial statements
1963-1987
Carton 2, Folder 30-33
Stockholder's reports
1968-1993
Carton 3, Folder 1-29
Tudor Newsletters
1952,
1954,
1955,
1962-1972,
1974-1987,
1989
Carton 3, Folder 30-34
Project profiles by discipline
undated
Carton 3, Folder 36
Calaveras County Water Development, meetings
1965-1966
Carton 3, Folder 37
Calaveras County Water District - Ebbets Pass
1963-1964
Carton 3, Folder 38
RTK Joint Venture Super Collider, TX
1963-1964
Carton 3, Folder 39
Water Resources - Time sheet job numbers
1967
Carton 3, Folder 40-41
Water resources progress schedule
1964
Carton 3, Folder 42
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), Mechanical Engineering
1965
Carton 3, Folder 43
Parsons - Brinckerhoff - Tudor - Bechtel
1963-1965
Carton 3, Folder 44
Proposal - San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
1959
Carton 3, Folder 45-47
Calaveras County Water District fish and game agreement
1964-1965
Carton 3, Folder 48
Earthquake criteria, Mount San Jacinto Tramway
1961
Carton 3, Folder 49
Thermal interaction studies
1982-1991
Carton 3, Folder 52-53
Financial feasibility of Southern Crossing of San Francisco
Bay
1956,
1958
Carton 3, Folder 54
Tudor project profiles
undated
Carton 3, Folder 55
International projects
undated
Carton 3, Folder 56-59
Contracts and agreements
1959-1973
Carton 3, Folder 60-63
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
1961-1973
Carton 4, Folder 1-2
Financial statements
1963-1972
Carton 4, Folder 3-4
Personnel listings
1955-1972
Carton 4, Folder 5-10
Promotional brochures
undated
Carton 4, Folder 11-12
Tagus River Bridge brochures
1960,
1965,
1966,
1967,
1972
Carton 4, Folder 13-23
Tudor Engineering Brochures
1958,
1972,
1976,
undated
Carton 4, Folder 24
Client performance ratings of Tudor Engineering
1993
Carton 4, Folder 25-29
Miscellaneous
1956,
1966,
1967,
1974,
1975,
1987,
1990,
1992,
undated
Carton 5, Folder 1
Tudor Engineering, listing of jobs
1947-1989
Carton 5, Folder 2-4
Job information sheets (for 255-8 master list)
1986-1991
Carton 5, Folder 5-7
Job descriptions - job numbers to 999
1971-1982
Carton 5, Folder 8-9
Job information 900-1149
1981-1986
Carton 5, Folder 10-12
Job descriptions - job numbers from 1000
1982-1989
Carton 5, Folder 14-15
Job information 100-899
1973-1981
Carton 5, Folder 16-20
Job descriptions and assignments
1971-1985
Carton 6, Folder 1
Staff resumes - officers and supervising
Jun. 1975
Carton 6, Folder 2-3
Project log - Boise, Idaho office
1956-1983
Carton 6, Folder 4
Scholarship fund - correspondence
1979,
1996,
1997,
2006
Carton 6, Folder 5
Corporate administration guide
1978
Carton 6, Folder 6-9
Western states - inventory of low-head hydroelectric sites
1980
Carton 6, Folder 10
Promotional brochures
undated
Carton 6, Folder 13
Qualifications for small hydroelectric power project
undated
Carton 6, Folder 14
Alaska transportation corridor study
Apr. 1972
Carton 6, Folder 15
Report and development plan for Crystal Springs Irrigation Project
Jan. 1958
Carton 6, Folder 16
Miscellaneous
1962,
1982,
undated
