Landships II

Date: Nov 28, 2005

The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection

Date: Nov 28, 2005

Hello Vilkata

Yes these are some great photo's, I am no expert on artillery. I am sure some one from this site can help you with that question. But as fas as Armoured Cars are concerned, I have a good bit of knowledge. These AC's are the White No.1. I will be doing and article, that will follow the Cadillac-Armoured Car Article soon.

Thanks for sharing

All The Best

Tim R.

Date: Nov 28, 2005

The large field pieces in line of battery are US 4.7" M1906 guns. The smaller pieces are 3" M1902 field guns. These were unashamedly based largely on Ehrhardt design input, but were produced in modest numbers. Upon America's entry in the Great War it was deemed prudent to standardize ammunition supply with French ordnance. Hence, the 3" stayed home, while the 4.7" underwent chamber design alteration to accommodate the French 120mm round. It is said a few reached France in November '18, but there is no record of any AEF wartime artillery unit issued the weapon.

Date: Nov 29, 2005

Hey, neat images, thanks for sharing them!

The mountain howitzer with the vicious recoil is the Vickers Sons and Maxim 2.95-inch Mountain Howitzer. It saw quite a bit of use in the desert during World War 1 and supposedly saw some action with American troops in the Phillipines in 1942. It's covered by Osprey's first volume on British artillery of world war 1.

The 4.7 and American Ehrhardts are neat! I wish there was more information on them. There's a decent photo of a preserved 4.7 and photos of other world war 1 artillery on this site: http://www.geocities.com/~jmgould/neart.html

Lastly, the machine guns are actually Hotchkiss (or Benet-Mercie, I'm not sure what the difference is) light machine guns that the US Army bought just after the turn of the century. They're fed by a solid brass feed-strip, common to all Hotchkiss designs, which is why it looks so stiff. They're practically the same guns used by the Whippet, except for caliber.

Thanks again for sharing the link and all, and I hope I helped some.

Matt

Date: Nov 29, 2005

Thank you very much for the link, the information, and the correction Matthew!

And looking at one cannon in your link, I cannot help but remember a post I brought up a few months ago... After learning that the original Monopoly Battleship game piece was actually a characature of a single specific battleship, the USS Iowa BB-4 (spanish american war and WWI era ship), I became convinced that the original monopoly Cannon gamepiece was based on a real gun aswell.

That little 12 pound boat howitzer in your link has the same sort of low-placed cannon, big fat funny round cannon-back piece, and long elegant wavy tail stand. In fact, that picture of the boat howitzer has two rails, going from the outer axle assemblies, to the tail end. JUST like the monopoly game piece!!!

Gentleman. The ORIGINAL Monopoly Cannon game piece was in FACT a characature of the 12 pound boat howitzer!!! I'm really excited I finally figured this out, haha! It had been bugging me.

Not to bring this thread off topic of course, haha.

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---Vil.