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Can be found on Gallica Here:

155mm Mle 77/14 complete manual with drawings

155mm Mle 1877 notes with Drawings

75mm Mle1897 lithograph of colour drawings

Brandt 60mm Pneumatic Morter complete manual with drawings

 

More to follow

 

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Mortier de 220 Mle 1915 et 1916 Schneider good set of drawings lots of detail.

Material de 75 Mle1912 some good Drawings good info for this important export gun.

Materiel de 155 C Mle 1904 T.R. good drawings.

Canon de 75 Mle 1897 Portee  truck born Artillery useful drawings and illustrations.

Canon de 14 C/M Mle 1910 Schneider good drawings

Canon de 155 Court Mle 1915 et 1917 Schneider good drawings

 

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Thank you so much for sharing these documents
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Your Welcome there are quite a few others available I'm still grappling with the search terms, will post a few more later mostly smaller mortars 58s, 150, 240etc and the 37mm trench gun.... some though are conspicuous by their absence 65 and 80 mm Mountain guns for example... so far.... 

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Thank you - I've started mining the manuals for Landships II - the 220mm Schneider howitzer Landships II article now has some drawings.

The book of drawings of the 75mm Mle 1897 is a fabulous find - you could just about build the gun from the drawings.

Regards,

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Trench Mortars 58 No1 bis, No2, 150, 240L, 280, 340 Manuals
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Trench Mortars 58 No1 bis, No2, 150, 240, 340 Manuals five total good detail and drawings.

Mortier de 280 TR Schneider Pt1

Mortier de 280 TR Schneider Pt2 and 3 good detail includes photos of transportation

Matériel du canon de 37 modèle 1916 T.R good drawings very detailed

 

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French Reference Books Artillery and Trench Mortars.
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Cours d'artillerie. Historique et organisation de l'artillerie a mine of information excellent reference, profusely illustrated.

Cours d'artillerie de tranchée excellent version of this indispensable work. 

 

 

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This is such a great find Ironsides. So far I have only one to add:

Les Établissements Schneider. Matériels d'artillerie et bateaux de guerre.

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6516812h.r=.langEN



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 Pat Excellent Findwink

Heres another very interesting book detailed info with good drawings too...

L'artillerie Schneider-Canet à l'Exposition universelle de 1900

Another Mortar type weapon although not described as such, the "Archer" Canon d'infanterie de 85 millimètres, modèle 1918 only vaguely heard of this before and rather a surprise to find, as I expected something else entirely...

 

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Our native French speakers will probably yield even more amazing finds.

Many thanks again for sharing the link! Regards, Pat



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Impressive. This is the forum that keeps on giving. Thanks a lot!

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Canon de 80, 90 and 95 Mle 1888
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Another good one with good detail and drawings including the battery wagons, field forge etc

Canon de 95  Mle 1888

the previous guns to the above, Very detailed includes battery wagons and more...5*

Canon de 80 et 90

 

 

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Do we have a link to the manuals for the Saint-Chamond tank?:


http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6552141p/f1.image.r=Saint-Chamond.langEN (Vol.1 & 2)
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65523451/f18.image.r=Saint-Chamond.langEN (Vol.3)
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6552155q/f1.image.r=Saint-Chamond.langEN (Vol.4)

75mm St-Chamond TR field gun (diagrams)

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6552338w/f9.image.r=Saint-Chamond.langEN 

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And yet another manual  of the 95 mle 1888 as a fortress gun in use in the Maginot line I believe

Canon de 95 Mle 1888 sur affût de côte sous casemate 1938 good detail and drawings

St Chamond 155mm mle 1915

DU MATÉRIEL DE 155 COURT MODÈLE 1915 ST-CHAMOND good detail includes drawings

An excellent book with a great deal of detail on a number of older guns, 150L, 120L, 155mm 1881, 220mm 1889, 95 90 and 80 guns, includes many drawings and detailed info.

Règlement de manoeuvre de l'artillerie à pied. Service des bouches à feu de siège et de place

From this search which turns up a lot of good stuff  

Règlement de manoeuvre de l'artillerie à pied. Service des Bouches a Feu 

 

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The Holy Grail?

155mm GPF french manual complete with drawings

155 GPF manual

 

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Ironsides wrote:

The Holy Grail?

155mm GPF french manual complete with drawings

155 GPF manual

 

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 I dub thee Sir Galahad but hope you aren't translated with the Grail as the original Galahad was - well not until you've found more in Gallica.

I notice the manual is "Titre V" (Volume V) - so there's probably more about the GPF in Gallica - provided the search engine can be persuaded to

disgorge them.

Regards,

Charlie



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I cant say I understand the way the volumes are organised or the titles for that matter except that V5 may well be a series all of its own...

Anyway found these by pure dum luck ......confuse

Canon de 65 de montagne Mle 1906 detailed drawings and info

 

Règlement de manoeuvre de l'artillerie de montagne1905 1914 includes pack loads, detailed

 

Canon de 75 Mle 1897 manual detailed drawings and info includes caisson and limber

 

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Impressive! Thanks for the findings, guys!

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French Coast, Fortress and RailGuns.
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Any interest in Coast, fortress or Railguns?



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Hello,

Very interesting documents. I am very interested by railguns. I tried to find something on this subject, without success.



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Hi Eric here's a few with detailed info and drawings:

194mm mle 70-93

Description et entretien du matériel et des munitions de 194 Mle 70-93 sur affût-truc tous azimuts. 

240mm mle 93-96 M

Description et entretien du matériel et des munitions de 240 Mle 93-96 M sur affût-truc tous azimuts. 

285mm mle 17, 320mm mle 70-84 and mle 70-93

Description et entretien des matériels sur affût-truc à glissement à deux bogies et de leurs munitions. 

A comprehensive study of Allied Railway Guns in WW1, the best copy available:

Railway Artillery Vol2

 

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Another one - Canon de 155 L Mle 1917 Schneider (not the howitzer - the gun).

The 155mm gun was in service with a number of European countries between the wars. The Wehrmacht used captured 155mm guns for coastal defence in WW2.

155mm manual from Gallica

The manual has lots of drawings of the gun and its transport vehicles

Regards,

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Had a thought....

Maybe it would be a smart idea to aggregate all the links to the manuals into an article on Landships II.

It would save having to search the forum for the links and be a resource for the casual researcher.

What say you?

Regards,

Charlie



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Good ideasmile a page for the Brits and USA could follow.... 

 

 

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Another thank you for these!

As Charlie says above, "you could just about build a gun from these plans." And that's what I'm about to do.  Next week, I will visit a  museum  to make measurements so that I can make dimensioned engineering drawings of French 75 mm Modele 1897, then scale down for a 1:10 to 1:5 model. The French document, with its colorized drawings and especially the isometric views, are a great supplement to the orthometric, monochrome drawings in the US Army TM 9-1305.

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Some more manuals:

Canon de 145/155 Mle 1916 Saint Chamond (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6577380k) - Naval barrel on land carriage - successful long range gun with low dispersion 

of shots.

Canon de 145 Mle 1910 Saint Chamond (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6551908h) - small numbers produced before the definitive Mle 1916.

Canon de 220 Mle 1917 L Schneider (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65523488)

Obusier de 203mm Mark VI Anglais (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6552745d) - British 8 inch Mark VI howitzer

Regards,

Charlie

 



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