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Some nice shots of a rare gun.
I believe there is one in Eire, Southern Ireland. Some of these guns were used by the irish Army, but I'm sure someone out there has more details.

if youre interested, I have some drawings from the Firepower Museum at Woolwich, they have quite a bit of info on this Mk of gun.

There was no Martin Parry conversion for this gun, they were all rubber tyred, but the suspension was similar to the gun fitted with the box trail. I have details of this too.

From what I have read, both types were trialed by the RA, and the box trail accepted for service. Some (?) split trail types entered service, and I believe were used by the Commonwealth forces, mostly in Eritrea and somaliland (I think). I have bee researching BEF equipment for some time, and I have never seen a split trail gun in service with the BEF. I have loads of photos of the box trail gun, two show fields full of captured guns. Photos of a split trail in service are very rare, so far I have seen only two.

There are some pre-war photos of the split trail gun being towed by the Morris CDF "toast-rack" FAT.

George.