 The Ayub Bridge was built immediately adjacent to the bridge in 1962, and so photographs of the Landsdown Bridge usually also show the Ayub Bridge.It was designed by Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel; he designed the Lansdowne Bridge Rohri at Sukkur over the Indus River, which when it was completed in 1889 was the largest cantilever bridge in the world.The girder work, weighing a massive 3,300 tons, was manufactured in London by the firm of Westwood, Baillie and erected by F.E.