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Bailey Bridge
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OutlineHistoryAssemblyImpact on WWIIVersatilityFutureQuestions
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Problem
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•Education- Leys School, Cambridge, and Sheffield University (Doctorate of Engineering)•Career- Sheffield City Engineer Department, Experimental Bridging Establishment (1928), First Director of the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment•Knighted in 1946
, Kt, OBE, D Eng, C Eng, MICE, MI Struct E, JP
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Design employed prefabricated panels and partsCan be carried by trucks and assembled using manpower alone Erection using simple tools (ropes, pulleys, jacks
and hammers)Can be moved, rebuilt, or replaced in several
hours, even under enemy fire
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Incredible Versatility
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How it works1-Recon Site2-Determine construction requirements
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3-Build it
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Lay Ho Heave
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MULTIPLE CONFIGURATIONS
Identical panels can be mated and stacked to increase span or load capacity or both
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How a bridge won WWIIWithout the Bailey Bridge, we should not have won the war. It was the best thing in that line that we ever had.”
Field Marshal Lord Bernard L. Montgomery
“…one of the three pieces of equipment that most contributed to our victory in Festung Europa.”
General Dwight Eisenhower
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150th Road to Victory
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Versatility of the Bailey
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Post-War construction applications
Bailey Bridge components were sold as surplus after World War II
Used here in erecting a concrete gravity dam in Quebec
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Bailey suspension spans were widely used in Asia during and after the Second World War because of their wide availability and low cost
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Bailey Bridge panels being used as roof trusses for a factory building in South Africa during the 1950s
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What of the name Bailey now?
Donald Bailey lived his life in relative obscurity.
During the 1960s Thomas Storey Engineers Ltdof London marketed Bailey Bridges under the name Bailey-Uniflote all over the world
Today, another English firm, Mabey Johnson, fabricatesthe same style component steel segmented truss bridgesusing higher strength, lower weight structural steel