This article is about the portable prefabricated bridge. For the bridge in India, see Baily Bridge.
 Bailey bridge over the Coppename river at Witagron, Suriname. This example uses triple-wide, single-high panels, and ribands can be seen through the planking. The Bailey bridge is a portable pre-fabricated truss bridge, designed for use by military engineering units to bridge up to 60 m (200 foot) gaps. It requires no special tools or heavy equipment for construction, the bridge elements are small enough to be carried in trucks, and the bridge is strong enough to carry tanks. It is considered one of the great examples of military engineering. This article is about a bridge in India. ...
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History Donald Bailey was a civil servant in the British War Office who tinkered with model bridges as a hobby. He presented one such model to his chiefs, who saw some merit in the design and had construction started at a slow rate. The bridge was taken into service by the Corps of Royal Engineers and first used in Italy in 1943. A number of bridges were available by 1944 for D-Day, when production was ramped up. The US also licensed the design and started rapid construction for their own use. Bailey was later knighted for his invention, which continues to be widely produced and used today. Sir Donald Coleman Bailey (15 September 1901 – 5 May 1985) was a British civil engineer who invented the Bailey bridge. ...
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The original design however, violated a patent on the Hamilton-Callender bridge. The designer of that bridge, A. M. Hamilton successfully applied to the Royal Commission for Awards to Inventors. The Bailey bridge had however several advantages over Hamilton's design. For other uses, see Patent (disambiguation). ...
Archibald Milne Hamilton (? - 1972) was a New Zealand-born engineer, notable for building the Hamilton Road through Kurdistan and designing the Hamilton-Callender bridge system. ...
Design A large part of what made Bailey bridges as successful and unique as they were is the modular design, and the fact that it could be assembled with minimal aid from heavy equipment. Most, if not all, previous designs for military bridges required cranes to lift up the preassembled bridge and lower it into place. The Bailey parts were made of standard steel alloys, and were simple enough that parts made at a number of different factories could be completely interchangeable. Each individual part could be carried by a small number of men, enabling army engineers to move more easily and more quickly than before, in preparing the way for troops and matériel advancing behind them. Finally, the modular design allowed engineers to build each bridge to be as long and as strong as needed, doubling or tripling up on the supportive side panels, or on the roadbed sections. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 585 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Pont Bailey (Bailey bridge) Localisation : Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (France) Construction vers 1970 Photographie personnelle, prise le 24/08/2003. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 585 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Pont Bailey (Bailey bridge) Localisation : Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (France) Construction vers 1970 Photographie personnelle, prise le 24/08/2003. ...
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Matériel (from the French for equipment or hardware, related to the word material) is a term used in English to refer to the equipment and supplies in military and commercial supply chain management. ...
The basic bridge consists of three main parts. The "floor" of the bridge consists of a number of 19 ft wide transoms that run across the bridge, with 10 ft long stringers running between them on the bottom, forming a square. The bridge's strength is provided by the panels on the sides, which are 10 ft (3 m) long cross-braced rectangles. These are placed standing upright above the stringers, and clamps run from the stringers to the panels to hold them together. Ribands are placed on top of the completed structural frame, and wood planking is placed on top of the ribands to provide a roadbed. Later in the war, these wooden panels were replaced by steel, which was more resistant to the damage caused by tank treads. Transom (probably a corruption of Latin transtrum, a thwart, in a boat; equivalents are French traverse, croisillon, German Losholz) is the architectural term given to the horizontal lintel or beam which is framed across a window, dividing it into stages or heights. ...
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Each unit constructed in this fashion creates a single 10 ft (3 m) long section of bridge, with a 12 ft (4 m) wide roadbed. After one section is complete it is typically pushed forward over rollers on the bridgehead, and another section built behind it. The two are then connected together with pins pounded into holes in the corners of the panels.
For added strength several panels (and transoms) can be bolted on either side of the bridge, up to three. Another solution is to stack the panels vertically. With three panels across and two high, the Bailey Bridge can support tanks over a 200 ft (60 m) span. Span is a section between two intermediate supports of a bridge. ...
A useful feature of the Bailey bridge is its ability to be "launched" from one side of a gap. In this system the frontmost portion of the bridge is angled up with wedges into a launching nose and most of the bridge is left without the roadbed and ribands. The bridge is placed on rollers and simply pushed across the gap, using manpower or a truck or tracked vehicle, at which point the roller is removed (with the help of jacks) and the ribands and roadbed installed, along with any additional panels and transoms that might be needed.
 Bailey bridge over the Wadi el Kuf, Libya. Bailey bridge sections have also been used to construct the supports. Stories of Bailey bridges being built and erected during the Second World War are legendary. The very first instance of a Bailey being erected under fire was at Leonforte by members of the 3rd Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers.[1] In one instance a bridge was pushed over the Saar River while under artillery and tank fire. When the enemy was finally cleared out the panels had holes in them and would not carry the weight of a tank. Replacing the panels would require the bridge to be "broken" in the middle. Instead they simply bolted an entirely new set of panels onto the bridge on top of the original set, a technique that later became a standard feature. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 167 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ...
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Country Italy Region Sicily Province Enna (EN) Mayor Elevation 603 m Area 83 km² Population - Total (as of December 31, 2004) 14,046 - Density 170/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Coordinates Gentilic Leonfortesi Dialing code 0935 Postal code 94013 Patron Madonna del Carmelo - Day August 16 Website: [1] View...
Saar loop at Mettlach The Saar (French: Sarre) is a river, that rises in the Vosges mountains in Alsace with two headstreams (Red and White Saar) at the Donon, running through Lorraine and the Saarland, which was named after it. ...
The Bailey provided an excellent solution to the problem of German and Italian armies destroying bridges as they retreated. By the end of the war, the US Fifth Army and British 8th Army had built over 3,000 Bailey bridges in Sicily and Italy alone, totaling over 55 miles (90 km) of bridge, at an average length of 100 ft (30 m). One Bailey, built to replace the Sangro River bridge in Italy, spanned 1,126 ft (343 m). Another on the Chindwin River in Burma, spanned 1,154 feet (351 m). The US Fifth Army was one of the principal formations of the US Army in the Mediterranean during World War II. It was activated on 4 January 1943 and made responsible for the defence of Algeria and Morocco. ...
The Eighth Army was one of the best-known formations in World War II, fighting in the campaigns in North Africa and Italy. ...
Sicily ( in Italian and Sicilian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,708 km² (9,926 sq. ...
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The Sangro is a river in Italy, which flows into the Adriatic Sea. ...
The Chindwin River is a river in Myanmar and the major tributary of the Irrawaddy River. ...
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery wrote in 1947: Note: This article is about the military usage of the word marshal. For other usages, see the end of this article. ...
Bernard Law Montgomery Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (November 17, 1887 - March 24, 1976) was a British military officer during World War II often referred to as Monty. ...
- Bailey Bridging made an immense contribution towards ending World War II. As far as my own operations were concerned, with the eighth Army in Italy and with the 21 Army Group in North West Europe, I could never have maintained the speed and tempo of forward movement without large supplies of Bailey Bridging.[2][3]
The British 21st Army Group was an important Allied force in the European Theatre of World War II. // Normandy Commanded by General (later Field Marshal) Sir Bernard Montgomery, it initially controlled all ground forces in Operation Overlord. ...
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Modern bailey bridge A bailey bridge was built on the grounds of the Royal Military College of Canada in 2004 to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Engineering Branch and close ties between Branch and the college. The Royal Military College of Canada (RMC), is the military academy of the Canadian Forces and is a full degree-granting university. ...
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Other uses The Skylark launch tower at Woomera was built up of bailey bridges. A Skylark tower is a tower required for the launch of earlier versions of Skylark-rockets. ...
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In the years immediately following WWII, the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission purchased huge amounts of war-surplus Bailey bridging, and established a small design group to promote its use in novel applications. For example, the trestles required for an extensive gravel-classification set-up for the power plants then being built on the Ottawa River.
See also A Mabey Logistic Support Bridge, Tikrit, Iraq The primary mission of the Mabey Logistic Support Bridge (LSB) is for use on Main Supply Routes by the military engineer to upgrade routes for heavier traffic, replace damaged civilian bridges, replace assault and general support bridges and to provide a long span...
A 16-Bay with LRS Medium Girder Bridge across the Kazer River, Mosul, Iraq, 2003. ...
Polish military engineers at work in Pakistan A military engineer is primarily responsible for the design and construction of offensive, defensive and logistical structures for warfare. ...
Pontoon bridge across the James River at Richmond, Virginia, 1865. ...
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Resources - McLaughlin, Mike (May 2005). "The practical and portable British Bailey Bridge helped Allied troops remain on the march." Military Heritage Presents: WWII History, pp. 10-15, 76.
Footnotes - ^ canadiansoldiers.com article on Leonforte
- ^ Mabey Bridge and Shore, Inc.: Bailey Bridge
- ^ Other Equipment Used By The 7th Armoured Division
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