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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.
Bailey Bridge, Inc. manufactures and supplies portable Bailey component panel bridges and maintains a significant inventory of replacement components for US Army designed M1, M2 and M3 bridges. Bailey’s portable component panel bridges are for purchase or rent.
The Bailey bridge is a type of portable, pre-fabricated, truss bridge developed by the British during World War II. British, Canadian, and American engineering units successfully deployed the bridges during the War.
Bailey bridges were put to work by the British and American armies in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and finally in northwest Europe. As the German forces retreated on each of these fronts, they made liberal use of explosives, mining every road and bridge between them and the Allies.
The Bailey bridge was Donald Bailey’s innovative solution to a number of wartime obstacles. The Allies needed a way to cross bodies of water quickly, but bombed-out bridges — or an absence of...
A Bailey bridge between the Suru River and Dras River in Ladakh, India is the highest bridge in the world at an altitude of 5,602 meters (18,379 ft) above sea level. It was built in 1982 by the Indian Army .
The longest floating Bailey bridge (1,096 ft.) was thrown over the Chindwin in Burma in December 1944. The bridge can be constructed with single panels and single tiers so as to take moderately heavy traffic immediately.
Can you tell us a little bit about what the Bailey Bridge is and the history of the Bailey Bridge? What made the design revolutionary at the time? What makes this bridge so useful in comparison to say, a more traditional site-specific bridge design?
The modular, rapidly deployable Bailey Bridge has its origins in the years before the Second World War, when civil servant Donald Bailey came up with the concept, producing his original sketch on the back of an envelope in 1936. His idea was largely ignored at the time, but then war broke out.
The Bailey Bridge was first used in the North African Campaign and thereafter in Italy and with the American Army sold on it, it was produced in vast quantities Stateside. They even called it by a different name – Panel bridge M1, Bailey Type.