Editor:
Re: New bridge for Nicomekl, Oct. 11.
The Bailey bridge is significant to me.
I served two years in the Royal Engineers in the U.K. and had training in the bridge assembly.
There was “wet’ and “dry” Bailey. Wet was using pontoons on rivers and lakes, and dry was across gullies. The bridge was assembled panel by panel, and manually moved on heavy rollers. Each panel was lifted by six men and assembled using large metal cylindrical pins.
It was a remarkable design in bridge engineering.
I hope that some panels avoid the scrap yards and are preserved in an army museum, or in a bridge builder’s premises.
R. Lee, Surrey