Antwerp
The steel lifting bridge above the Brussels-Scheldt sea canal is part of the legacy of the Société Anonyme des Ateliers de Construction de Willebroeck, once an internationally renowned constructor.
No fewer than 712 steam engines rolled off the production line at the Carels Frères construction workshop (later ACEC) in the Belgian town of Ghent between 1874 and 1914.
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