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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.
The Bailey bridge was used for the first time in 1942. The first version put into service was a Bailey Pontoon and Raft with a 30 feet (9.1 m) single-single Bailey bay supported on two pontoons. A key feature of the Bailey Pontoon was the use of a single span from the bank to the bridge level which eliminated the need for bridge trestles.
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.
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 Finch bridge is used for limited vehicular traffic on Old Finch Avenue in north-east Toronto to cross the Rouge River. 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 ...
When that threat had passed, the gap was closed with a Bailey bridge and the pier became an Army training centre during World War II until 1948. [3] By 1948 the pier was abandoned and derelict, and when Lowestoft Town Council refused an offer to purchase it for £4,000 the actor George Studd took it over for a year and began to repair the pier.
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A 16-Bay with LRS Medium Girder Bridge across the Kazer River, Mosul, Iraq, 2003. An M60A3 main battle tank crosses a medium girder bridge during Exercise REFORGER '83 in Germany, 1983. The medium girder bridge (MGB) is a lightweight, man-portable bridge that can be assembled without help from heavy