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CharlieC


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I should have announced this new Landships artillery article - http://landships.info/landships/artillery_articles.html?load=/landships/artillery_articles/220mm_Schneider_M16.html 

- on the 220mm TR Schneider. This howitzer was pretty much the equivalent of the German 21cm Morser but, like most French artillery, is little known in the English speaking world.

 

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 Charlie



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Charlie, you spoiled my experiment! I was waiting to see if anybody would notice!

Here's the link as a link: http://www.landships.info/landships/artillery_articles.html?load=/landships/artillery_articles/220mm_Schneider_M16.html

Great article.

 



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Sorry about that - the horde hadn't noticed (or cared) there were only 7 views in 4 days according to the Landships web stats.

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Charlie



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CharlieC wrote:

 

Sorry about that - the horde hadn't noticed (or cared) there were only 7 views in 4 days according to the Landships web stats.

Regards,

Charlie

 That was probarbly mewink 

Some links to the artillery journals are no longer active in the TR 280 article and can be found here...

http://sill-www.army.mil/firesbulletin/archives/index.html#1911

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Thanks - I've updated the links to the Field Artillery Journal.

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Charlie



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That's another interesting artillery article - thanks for taking your time to compile and upload it. Regards, Pat

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That's more like it - 34 page views up to 02:00 19/12/2012.

Been reading more about the 220mm Mle 1916 - the French tried to replace this howitzer in the 1930s but failed to come up with

a viable replacement so, by default, entered WW2 with this howitzer still in the inventory. It seems strange that St Chamond had

already built a superior 220mm howitzer in 1918 but this was cancelled after the Armistice.

I get the impression that the politics between Schneider and St Chamond would make the Borgias and Medicis look like pussycats.

Regards,

Charlie



-- Edited by CharlieC on Wednesday 19th of December 2012 09:16:45 AM

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Hello,

Charlie, your remark on Schneider and Saint-Chamond is true for the years 1885 to 1918 but, after the Great War, the Saint-Chamond's department of Artillery becomes the property of Schneider.So, from 1924 to 1940, the artillery's works of former Compagnie des Forges et Aciéries de la Marine et d'Homécourt located in Saint-Chamond were under the control of Schneider.
It is the reason why many Schneider guns were built in Saint-Chamond after 1924.
Yours sincerely,
Guy François.

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Hi Guy,

Thank you for the clarification.

Regards,

Charlie



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