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Bridging

Military Article Photocopies available from Military/Info

• American Expeditionary Force."Bridges No.1:  Pile and Trestle Bents," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.4 (16 April 1918}; 21 pages, 10 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.1566-04}  [Includes: General Remarks: Use, Trestle bents versus pile bents; Standard Types: Considerations affecting design, Spacing of bents, General description of standard types, Permissable Modifications, The types adopted are as follows; Pile Bents: Selection and preparation of piles for driving, Pile Drivers, Driving piles with drop hammer pile drivers, Driving piles with water jet, Determination of point when driving shall cease, Framing pile bents; Trestle Bents: Foundations, Example, Prevention of Scour, Framing Trestle Bents, Erection of trestle bents; Placing floor system on pile and trestle bents]
• American Expeditionary Force."Bridges No.1-A:  Bill of Material for Standard Trestle Bridges," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.52 (16 November 1918); 4 pages, illus.  Price .50  {Item No.1566-05}
• American Expeditionary Force."Bridges No.2:  Maintenance of Highway Bridges," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.5 (1 May 1919); 11 pages  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-06}  [Includes: Inspection of Bridges: General remarks, General condition, Floor system, Timber supports for superstructure, Masonry supports for superstructure, Steel and wooden trusses and griders, Masonry and bridges; Repairs: General remarks, General conditions, Floor system, Timber supports for superstructure, Masonry supports for superstucture, Steel and wooden trusses and griders, Masonry and bridges; Report of bridge instructions]
• American Expeditionary Force."Bridges No.3:  Approaches and Abutments of Military Bridges," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.7 (16 April 1918); 9 pages, 9 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-07}  [Includes: Approaches; Abutments: General, Bank seats, Bridge seat, Footings, Connection between bridge and approach, Protection of bank beneath abutment, Abutments for standard bridges]
• American Expeditionary Force."Bridges No.4:  Simple Stringer Bridges," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.8 (16 April 1918); 12 pages, 12 illus.  Price 1.50  {Item No.1566-08}  [Includes: General, Floor system: Standardization, Floor planks, Curbs, Hand rails, Nailing stripes, Stringers; Selection of Stringers: General, Selection of stringers by computation, Selection of stringers by graphical methods for standard loads, Selection of stringers by graphical methods for all loads]
• American Expeditionary Force."Bridges No.5:  Piers," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.10 (30 April 1918); 11 pages, 16 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-09}  [Includes: Use, Masonry and concrete piers, Standard pile piers, Standard trestle piers, Wooden crib piers, Steel cribs]
• American Expeditionary Force."Bridges No.6," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.11 (1 May 1918); 6 pages, 7 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-10}  [Includes: Strutted Beam Bridges: Use, Design; Trussed Beam Bridges: Description, King pos trussed beam; Keyed or Compound Beams: Description, Example of Use of Table]
• American Expeditionary Force."Bridges No.7:  Portable Artillery Bridges," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.45 (12 October 1918); 2 pages, illus.  Price .50  {Item No.1566-11}  [Includes plans and bill of material for building it]
• American Expeditionary Force."Bridges No.8:  Canvas Type Portable Foot Bridge," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.46 (16 September 1918); 8 pages, 12 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-12}  [Includes: Composition of units, Loading, Organization of erection detail, Assembly of boats, Placing cable, Launching, Anchorage, Finishing the bridge, In shallow water, Time required for erection]
• American Expeditionary Force."Bridges No.9:  Weights and Dimensions of R.R. Artillery, Tanks, Field Artillery, Escort Wagon and Motor Trucks," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.48 (4 November 1918); 2 pages, 2 tables  Price .50  {Item No.1566-13}
• Bond, Capt.P.S., Corps of Engineers. "The Ralston Trestle for Bridge Equipage," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.I, No.3 (July-September 1909); 11 pages, 6 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.6154}
• Earle, Lieut.Joseph H., Corps of Engineers. "Timber for Ponton Material," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.III, No.11 (July-September 1911); 7 pages, 3 charts Price 1.00 {Item No.6174} [Includes: Materiel, Specimens, Testing, Results, Conclusions]
• Edgerton, Captain Glen Edgar. "Wooden and Combination Highway Bridges," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.VII, No.34 (July-August 1915); 36 pages, 18 illus. Price 3.50 {Item No.6221} [Includes: Introduction, Design: Substructures, Superstructures. Construction, Costs] [Good technical article on prefabricated light wooden truss bridges]
• Godfrey, Col.S.C., Engineer, U.S.Army."Bridging the Rhine with German Ponton Equipage," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.XI (1919); 10 pages, 5 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6322}
• Sturdevant, Lieut.C.L., Corps of Engineers. "A Military Suspension Bridge," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.III, No.11 (July-September 1911); 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6176} [A 100 foot bridge, constructed during drill by one Engineer Company, a strong bridge (they loaded 104 men at once on it to test it.]
• Mahan, D.H.."Military Communications,"A Treatise on Field Fortification (1848), Chapter XII; 26 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20896} [Including: General observations on water course, & c., Reconnaissance of the locality for a bridge, Floating military bridges, General observations on boat bridges, Construction of the Bateau bridge, Operation in breaking up the Bateau bridge, Bridges constructed with ordinary boats, Construction of raft bridges, Flying bridges, Trestle bridges, Temporary bridges, Fords, Passages on ice, Preservation and destruction of bridges, Passage of rivers]
• McDonough, Major M.J. and Major P.S.Bond, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. "Use and Development of the Ponton Equipage in the United States Army, with Special Reference to the Civil War," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.VI, No.30 (November-December 1914); 67 pages, 4 illus. Price 7.00 {Item No.6216} [Includes: Introduction, The West Point experiments, Operations in Virginia, Peninsula campaign, Antietam campaign, Fredericksburg campaign, Chancellorsville campaign, Gettysburg campaign, Operations in the west, Chickamauga campaign, Chattanooga campaign, Atlanta campaign, Savannah campaign, Campaign in the Carolinas, Grant's campaign of 1864, Franklin-Nashville campaign, The capacity of the equipage, The ponton as a ferry or individual craft, Mobility, The future of equipage, Conclusion]
• Pope, Capt.F.A., Corps of Engineers. "Timber for Ponton Material," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers Vol.III, No.12 (October-December 1911); 10 pages, 3 charts and tables Price 1.00 {Item No.6180}
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Bridge, Field,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 23 pages, plus 18 plates illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.20285} [Includes all of the articles on Bridges in this publication]
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Bridge, Pontoon, Rafts, General Equipment, Ect.,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 9 pages, 6 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20286} [Includes: General, Definitions, Detachments for pontoon carriages, To pack the carriage, Forming the bridge, Rafting out, The duties of raft detachments, To dismantle the bridge]
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Bridge, Boat,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 1 page, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20287}
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Bridge, Rope,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 2 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20288}
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Bridge, Boat and Rope,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 2 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20289}
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Bridge, Cask,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 2 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20290} [Bridge made out of barrels] [Includes various types of barrels]
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Bridge, Trestle,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 2 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20291}
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Bridge, Raft,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 1 page, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20292}[References: Laisne's 'Aide-Memorie', which we also have available]
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Bridge, Pile and Spar,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 3 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20293}
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Bridge, Flying, Swing,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 2 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20294}
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Bridge, Flying, Trail,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 2 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20295}
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Bridge, Reconstruction of,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 1 page, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20296}
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Passage of Rivers: I: Military Operations, and the Construction of Temporary Bridges,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 12 pages, 13 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.Item No.20434} [Includes: Introduction, Rules for ascertaining the width of a river, 1st without instruments, 2ndly, with a sextant, compass, or theodolite. Temporary bridges (added to the article "Bridge, field"): Large trees, Wheel carriages, Wicker bridge, Coracles or hide-boats, Inflated skins, Pile bridge, Temporary bridges of gun and mortar platforms: First a trussel lattice bridge, Secondly, a suspension bridge, Third a trestle bridge, Fourthly rafts, Vulcanized India-rubber pontoons]
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Passage of Rivers: II: Permanent Bridges,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 20 pages, 17 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.Item No.20435} [Includes: Equilibrium, Thrust, Abutments, Piers, The Arch, Roadway, Treating of the foundations, for bridges, especially in Indian rivers, On the proper waterway for bridges, General considerations]
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Passage of Rivers: III: Permanent Bridges,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 17 pages, 10 illus. plus 11 plates of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.Item No.20436} [Includes: Stone bridges, Brick bridges, Wooden bridges, Iron bridges, Drawbridges, including Bascule, Swivel, Roller, and others. Suspension bridge, Iron Tubular bridges]
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Pontoon,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1862), Vol.III; 3 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20443} [Floating bridge wooden and canvas pontoons]
• Skelly, Major J.W., Corps of Engineers."The Coblenz Ponton Bridge," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.XI (1919); 12 pages, 13 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.6297}
• Flagler, Major C.A.F., Corps of Engineers. "Development and Tactics of Military Bridge Equipage," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.IV, No.15 (May-June 1912); 10 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6184} [A history of military floating bridges]
• Loving, Lieut.J.J., Corps of Engineers. "Handling our Ponton Equipage," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.IV, No.15 (May-June 1912); 12 pages, 7 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6185}
• Bond, Captain P.S.. "Some Experiments in the Use of Bamboo for Hasty Bridge Construction," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.V, No.23 (September-October 1913); 9 pages, 12 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.6201} [Includes: Introduction, Physical characteristics of Bamboo, Types of Trestles, Tests of trestles and balk, Remarks, Strength tests]
• Dillon, Capt.T.H., Corps of Engineers. "Building a Ponton Bridge in Swift Water," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.V, No.24 (November-December 1913); 15 pages, 7 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.6203} [Includes: Introduction, Order of instruction, River characteristics, Handling wooden boats, Anchors, Construction of bridges, Maintenance of bridges, Dismantling bridges, Equipment, Wooden vs. Steel boats, Training for bridge work]
• Pillbury, Major G.B., Corps of Engineers. "Deflection of Unstiffened Suspension Bridges," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.V, No.24 (November-December 1913); 10 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6205} [Includes: Introduction, Curve of the cable under uniform loads, Deflections under a distributed load, Maximum deflections]
• Caples, Capt.W.G., Corps of Engineers. "Light Bridge Equipment," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers, Vol.VI, No.26 (March-April 1914); 13 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.6210} [Includes: Austria, Germany, Denmark and Brazil, Other nations, Conclusions]
• Regimental Commander. "Bridge Training of a Battalion of Mounted Engineers," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.10 (1918); 9 pages, 4 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6263} [Including: Introduction, Frame trestle bridges, Suspension bridges, Queen-post bridges, Ponton bridges, Pile bridges]
• Division of Military Engineering of the International Congress of Engineers. "American Military Roads and Bridges," by Prof. P.S.Michie, U.S. Military Academy. Columbian Exposition (1894), XXXIa. ; 9 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6133} [Includes: Military Roads, Railroads, Corduroy Roads, Military Bridges, Other Military Bridges]
• U.S.Army Infantry School. "Engineers in a River Crossing," Infantry School Mailing List, Vol. XXIV, Chapter 5. (July 1942); 20 pages, 6 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.10213} [Especially on Assault Boat crossings]
• U.S.Army Infantry School. "Improvised Mats for Moving Vehicles Over Soft Terrain," Infantry School Mailing List, Vol. XXVI, Chapter 10. (July 1943); 13 pages, 8 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.10241}
• War Department. Military Intelligence Service."Engineers," Tactical and Technical Trends Vol.I., No.1, Section I, Part VI. (April 1942); 1 page  Price .50 {Item No.12506} [German Steel Invasion Bridges, Notes on British Bridge Construction, G-2 Comment]
• War Department. Military Intelligence Service."British Mobile Scissors-Bridge," Tactical and Technical Trends Issue No.15, No.7 (31 December 1942); 4 pages, 2 illus.  Price .50  {Item No.12791}
• War Department."Bridging,"War Dept.Doc.No.605 Field Service Pocket Book (1917), Chapter IVc; 23 pages, 17 illus.  Price 2.00  {Item No.22042} [Bridges: Selection of site, Kinds of bridges, Ponton bridges: Heavy equipage, Light equipage, Standard heavy bridge, Standard light bridge, Weight of troops, Transportation. Fixed bridges: Pile, Trestle, Spar, Suspension, Cribwork pier, Fastenings. Maintenance and care of bridges, Use of existing bridges, Landing piers, Bridging expedients, Cordage]
• War Department."Field Engineering Data,"FM 101-10  Staff Officers' Field Manual. Organization, Technical and Logistical Data (10 October 1943), Chapter 7; 12 pages, illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.22099} [Including: Purpose, Roads and Bridges, Bridge and ferrying equipment: Distribution of floating equipment, Characteristics of ferrying equipment, Characteristics of floating bridge equipment, Fixed bridges, Water supply: Troop requirements, Capacity of water supply equipment, Equipment issued to troop units, Explosives, Field Fortifications: Priority of work, Camouflaging, Works, Obstacles, Road blocks and antimechanized measures: Road blocks, Continuous artificial obstacles, Antitank mine fields]
• War Department."Bridges and Stream Crossing Equipment, Bridge classification and design," FM 5-35  Corps of Engineers Reference Data (March 1944), Chapter 8, Section I; 36 pages, 5 illus.  Price 4.00 {Item No.1557-24} [Includes: Use of Posted Bridges: Posting of bridges, Marking of vehicle, Vehicle classification (table); Values gross weight factor, G (table), Field approximations in design of military bridges (table), Dead loads of highway bridge deck in pounds per linear foot (table), Types of loads on bridges (table); Weights wheel bases, and concentrated load equivalents of typical and critical military vehicles (16 page table), Design of footings (design table); Design of trestle bents (table); Design of wood stringers (table)(Safe gross load in pounds for rectriangular wooden stringers 1 inch wide); Methods designing and estimating capacity wood stringers (2 page design table); Design of steel stringers (table); Methods of designing and estimating capacity of steel stringers (design example 2 page table); Capacity of masonry arch bridges (illustration and table); Concrete floor slab brigdes: Capacity of concrete slad bridges (table); Capacity of concrete T-beam bridges and bridges with steel stringers and concrete floor slab (illustrated); Capacities of reinforced concrete arch bridges (table); Suspension bridges (design table); Bridge Card (For field use in estimating bridge capacities including posted, bailey, floating, wood and steel bridges)]
• War Department."Bridges and Stream Crossing Equipment, Standard fixed bridges," FM 5-35  Corps of Engineers Reference Data (March 1944), Chapter 8, Section II; 15 pages, 5 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.1557-25} [Includes: Standard fixed bridges (illlustration and table); Standard timber bridge (illustration); Table of equivalent vehicle weights of common vehicles over spans of 10 to 40 feet (2 page table); Steel trestle fixed bridge, 10 ton (illustration); Vehicle and posted capacities 10 ton steel trestle fixed bridge (table); Steel box girder fixed bridge, H-10 (illustration); Vehicle and posted capacities of steel box girder fixed bridge, H-10 (table); Steel box girder fixed bridge, H-20 (illustration); Vehicle and posted capacities of steel box girder fixed bridge, H-20 (table); Steel panel fixed bridge, bailey type (illustration); Vehicle and posted capacities stee panel fixed bridge, bailey type (table)]
• War Department."Bridges and Stream Crossing Equipment, Standard floating equipage," FM 5-35  Corps of Engineers Reference Data (March 1944), Chapter 8, Section III; 29 pages, 22 illus.  Price 3.00 {Item No.1557-26} [Includes: Boats (table); Rafts (table); Standard floating bridges (table); Assault boats: M1 (illustration and capacity table), M2 (illustration and capacity table), Storm boat (illustration and capacity table), Utility powerboat (illustration and capacity table); 2 Man canvas pneumatic Reconnaissance Boat (illustration); Reconnaissance Boats (capacity table); 6 Ton pneumatic float (illustration and capacity chart); 12 Ton pneumatic float (illustration and capacity chart); Assault boat ponton (illustration and capacity chart); 10-Ton ponton (illustration and capacity chart); 25 Ton ponton (illustration and capacity chart); Foot bridge M1938 (illustration); Infantry support raft (illustration); Vehicle and posted capacities of infantry support rafts (table); Expedient assault boat bridge with double treadway deck (illustration); Expedient assault boat bridge with triple treadway deck (illustration and capacity table); Pneumatic ponton bridge M3 (illustration and capacity table); Three float pneumatic ponton raft (illustration); Normal 25 ton ponton bridge (illustration); Vehicle and posted capacities of 25 ton ponton bridge (table); 25 Ton ponton raft (illustration); Steel treadway bridge M1 (illustration); Steel treadway bridge M2 (illustration); Fixed steel treadway bridge (illustration); Vehicle and posted capacities of steel treadway bridges M1 and M2 (table)]

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