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A Bailey bridge is a type of portable, pre-fabricated, truss bridge. It was developed in 1940–1941 by the British for military use during the Second World War and saw extensive use by British, Canadian and American military engineering units. A Bailey bridge has the advantages of requiring no special tools or heavy equipment to assemble.
U.S. Army troops cross the Rhine on a heavy pontoon bridge, March 1945 3D sketch of a bailey bridge barge dock being developed by China to potentially invade Taiwan. The following is a partial list of Military bridges. AM 50; Armoured vehicle-launched bridge; Bailey bridge; Callender-Hamilton bridge; DSB Dry Support Bridge; Mabey Logistic ...
Donald Bailey invented the Bailey bridge, which was made up of modular, pre-fabricated steel trusses capable of carrying up to 40 short tons (36 t) over spans up to 180 feet (55 m). While typically constructed point-to-point over piers, they could be supported by pontoons as well. [48] The Bailey bridge was used for the first time in 1942.
The house in which Bailey was born, 24 Albany Street, Rotherham is still standing. During the Second World War, there was a factory making the components for the Bailey bridge in the neighbouring town of Christchurch, where a section of bridge still remains, at a retail park in Barrack Road. The components were shipped to training grounds in ...
The bridge dates back to late October 1954; it was constructed by the Canadian Army in three working days (including the timber piles supporting in mid-stream) using bridge components from the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission, after Hurricane Hazel destroyed the old one. This bridge was built for single traffic; it is now controlled by ...
Clay Wade Bailey Bridge was reopened Thursday evening after it was shut down for approximately three hours by a crash that killed one person and seriously injured two others, officials said.
Bevil Guy Mabey CBE (16 April 1916 – 27 April 2010) was an English businessman who expanded the Mabey Group of engineering businesses, developing a modular steel bridge that could be quickly erected, and which became the successor to the wartime Bailey bridge.
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