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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 Military Engineering Experimental Establishment (MEXE) was a British defence research unit.It was formed from the Experimental Bridging Establishment in 1946 and was amalgamated with the Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment to form the Military Vehicles and Engineering Establishment in 1970.
The Alexis River Bridge, Labrador is a Callender-Hamilton type bridge. The Callender-Hamilton bridge is a modular portable pre-fabricated truss bridge.It is primarily designed for use as permanent civil bridging as well as for emergency bridge replacement and for construction by military engineering units.
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 was damaged during flooding of the Trent in 1947. [1] The British Army's Royal Engineers were called in to erect a temporary Bailey bridge which was placed on top of the old bridge later that year. [6] The bridge was replaced again in 1974 by a more modern version of the Bailey design, though still intended as a temporary structure. [1]
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.
The Clay Wade Bailey Bridge is a cantilever bridge carrying U.S. Route 42 and U.S. Route 127 across the Ohio River, connecting Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky. It also carries U.S. Route 25, the northern terminus of which is the Ohio state line, at the historic low-water mark of the Ohio River. The bridge's main span is 675 feet (206 m).