Crer by "Flying Bridge."
From lime to time one sees in some report of a movement of troops at the front, a paragraph setting forth that: "On reaching the river, no ford or ferry being available, the soldiers crossed by a flying bridge smartly supplied by the Engineers." Our little picture gives you one form of this. a is. the "bridge" itself, made of two pontoons decked over for the men to stand
on. By a line this swings from boat b, j which is securely anchored in mid-stream at (C. The line, as the five little marks along j it indicate, is buoyed up at distances with I floats to keep it on top instead of dragging ( through the water. By keeping the "bridge" [ inclined to the action of the current of the { river, as shown, it is thus forced across from j bank to bonk. I In the diagram the stream runs from 0 to- [ wards a, and the pontoon is going to d. , Slant it the other way on the line and it will return to c.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2433, 31 October 1900, Page 69
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Crer by "Flying Bridge."
Otago Witness, Issue 2433, 31 October 1900, Page 69
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