PONTOON BRIDGE BUILDING [Main]


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  • Year: 1912
  • Runtime: 7 mins
  • Description: Scenes of a riverside town, including its castle. The river itself has steep banks, and is wide and fast-flowing. The German Engineers, in fatigue dress, row the pontoon boats with their wooden cross-beams out into the river, and link them together with ropes to form one continuous bridge. The bridging timbers are laid across the pontoons and the bridge (with a supporting side-rail) completed. Horse transport moves across the bridge. The Engineers then start to dismantle the bridge and row the pontoons back to the shore.
    A German Army exercise in bridging a river, possibly the Rhine, before the First World War.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Imperial German Army, Engineers / engineering, military, German: bridge building & [+] / buildings, German - historic: castle / Germany & Rhine (River) (?)
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: UKF
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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