Landships II

vincent · Corporal

anyone know if the A7V 57mm gun was traversable?

Centurion · Legend

See attached - gun certainly looks traversed although not by much

Roger Todd · Legend

The 57mm gun (and all MG mounts) could traverse through an arc of 90 degrees (i.e. 45 degrees either side of the centre-line - see diagram by Strasheim in German Tanks in World War I, Schneider & Strasheim). Near the bottom of the article on Landships (http://www.landships.freeservers.com/emhar_a7v.htm) is a photo of a casemate without the 57mm gun (the section labelled 'Gun Mounting') - the casemate shield is clearly traversed to the right. And in the same article, in the group of colour photos of Mephisto in Australia, around half-way down the page, the 57mm gun can be seen to be traversed to the right as well.

-- Edited by Roger Todd at 23:43, 2006-12-29

James H · Legend

If you have a look at the article I did on the one from Schnuck you can see the control for elevation and traverse. There were two wheels on the left hand side of the breech; the one with a handle turned a rod with a worm at the other end that engaged a cog. As Roger says, this allowed 45 deg to l or r.

http://www.landships.freeservers.com/new_pages/reeve_a7v-gun.htm

Ian Armstrong · Sergeant

Looking at the images does not clearly show how the recuperator and recoil cylinders are attached to the gun and assume that the rear sections of the cyliners�are so fixed just in front of the breech.

Am�I right do you think, or has anyone got better references for this detail?

Help would be appreciated:O)