Sir donald bailey biography
Sir donald bailey biography
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Sir Donald Coleman Bailey
Sir Donald Coleman Bailey, British engineer who invented the Bailey bridge, which was of great military value in World War II, was born September 15, 1901 at Rotherham, Yorkshire.
He was the only child of Joseph Henry Bailey, commercial cashier, and his wife, Caroline Coleman.
After attending Rotherham Grammar School and the Leys School, Cambridge, he went to Sheffield University, where he took several degrees culminating in a Doctorate of Engineering.
He was employed by Rowntree & Co. of York, the civil engineer's department at the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway, and the City engineer's department in Sheffield before joining the War Office in 1928 as a civil engineering designer at Christchurch, Bournemouth.
Bailey was responsible for the design, development and manufacture of a variety of military bridging equipment, pontoons, cranes, pile-driving rigs and trailers to transport them.
When World War II broke out, he had alread