The medium girder bridge (MGB) is a lightweight, man-portable bridge that can be assembled without help from heavy equipment. In addition, it is also a deck type, two-girder bridging system capable of carrying loads up to and including main battle tanks (MBT).
A 16-Bay with LRS Medium Girder Bridge across the Kazer River, Mosul, Iraq, 2003.
An M60A3 main battle tank crosses a medium girder bridge during Exercise REFORGER '83 in Germany, 1983
MGB Parts
Capsil Roller Beam of the Medium Girder Bridge. Used as an extension to the construction frame to roll the bridge out over the gap. Kazer River, Mosul, Iraq, 2003.
The Fairey Aviation Company Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Hayes in Middlesex and Heaton Chapel and RAF Ringway in Cheshire that designed important military aircraft, including the Fairey III family, the Swordfish, Firefly, and Gannet. It had a strong presence in the supply of naval aircraft, and also built bombers for the RAF.
Stockport/Ringway-built Fairey Barracuda TF.V at Manchester Airport in May 1946
Fairey Stockport/Ringway-built Gannet AS.4 in 1956
Fairey Air Surveys Douglas DC-3 outside Fairey's 1937-built hangar at Manchester Airport during servicing in 1975
A Fairey mechanical overdrive, as fitted to an early Range Rover
