VAN DE RUIT, Adrianus

Contractor

Also referred to as VAN DER RUIT.

Born in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht in North-Holland. Trained as a carpenter in the Netherlands. Emigrated to the ZAR in 1888. He was responsible for the extensions to the Johannesburg Law Courts in 1890, and various NZASM stations including Park Station (1899), a locomotive roundhouse at Heidelberg (c. 1890s, demolished), Klerksdorp Railway Station (1895), and stations and other buildings along the South-Western Line.

He died on the 1st of January, 1943, in Springs, South Africa.

List of projects

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NZASM Rand Tram Railway Station - Park: 1894-1897. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Contractor

NZASM South-Eastern Line locomotive roundhouse: c1897. Heidelberg, Gauteng - Contractor

NZASM South-Western Line Railway Station: 1895. Klerksdorp, North West - Contractor

Books citing VAN DE RUIT

De Jong, RC, Van der Waal, GM. 1988. NZASM 100 : 1887-1899, the buildings, steam engines and structures of the Netherlands South African Railway Company. Pretoria: C. Van Rensburg Publications on behalf of the Human Sciences Research Council. pp 93, 192, 202, 205

Ploeger, Jan & De Kock, Gideon de V. 1989. Nederlandse emigrasie na Suid-Afrika 1800-1900. Port Elizabeth: University of Port Elizabeth. pp 183