A deck crane being erected for the Story Bridge construction in Brisbane

This was part of stage four of the construction. The new Queensland Labor Government permitted the establishment of a Bridge Board in 1933 to plan a government-constructed toll bridge at Kangaroo Point, promoted as an employment-generating scheme during the Great Depression. The design for the bridge was completed by Dr John Bradfield, a Brisbane-born engineer who had spent much of his life working in New South Wales. Bradfield had played key roles in the construction of Sydney’s electric railway system and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. In early 1935 Evans Deakin-Hornibrook Constructions Pty Ltd won the contract to build the proposed six-lane bridge with a bid of £1.15 million.