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[tankbarrell]

Keep hold of her Tim! I find it best to get something and then tell my wife I've had it all the time.......

6 or 17 pr are not easy to find. I can move my 6 pr around with a handspike on my own, a 17 pr would be a different thing altogether, though I'd love to add one to the collection!

[rnixartillery]

I have a little item in the workshop at the moment under restoration, much rarer than a 6 pdr and 17 pdr put together and takes up a lot less space probably less than your 75mm pack howitzer !


Rob...................rnixartillery.

[Tim Bell]

Originally Posted by rnixartillery

I have a little item in the workshop at the moment under restoration, much rarer than a 6 pdr and 17 pdr put together and takes up a lot less space probably less than your 75mm pack howitzer !


Rob...................rnixartillery.

Engima machine?

Tim

[rnixartillery]

Originally Posted by Tim Bell

Engima machine?

A spare British 3.7 inch pack Howitzer !


Rob....................rnixartillery

[Tim Bell]

3.7in Pack Howitzer - Nice... dont see too many of those about!

Much work to do?

Tim

[rnixartillery]

Originally Posted by Tim Bell

3.7in Pack Howitzer - Nice... dont see too many of those about!

Much work to do?

It will be live and fully restored, these British pack howitzers are by far rarer and survive in smaller numbers than its 75mm counter part in the UK and well if you go across the water the states is full of them ! the 75's that is and this is a fact.

Rob......................rnixartillery.

[tankbarrell]

I can here your wheels turning from here Rob!

[Tim Bell]

Originally Posted by rnixartillery

It will be live and fully restored, these British pack howitzers are by far rarer and survive in smaller numbers than its 75mm counter part in the UK and well if you go across the water the states is full of them ! the 75's that is and this is a fact.

Rob......................rnixartillery.

Live - excellent best way to preserve them - will you do any firing demos?

Very true - quite a few of the US 75mm PH's in the USA... though very few which are ex British Army examples which still retain the British Army modifications and lack the Post-WW2 US Army upgrades.

Pity noone has a record of guns issued to units!

Tim

[Tim Bell]

Originally Posted by tankbarrell

Keep hold of her Tim! I find it best to get something and then tell my wife I've had it all the time.......

6 or 17 pr are not easy to find. I can move my 6 pr around with a handspike on my own, a 17 pr would be a different thing altogether, though I'd love to add one to the collection!

Definitely keeping her - she's very supportive of me collecting the green stuff!

Was very surprised a few months ago when she received a copy of "anti-tank guns of WW2" thought I'd stumbled over an early Christmas present - then she told me she'd bought it for herself!!!

Her grandfather was an anti-tank gunner with 72nd Anti-Tank Regt RA at Monte Cassino.

Moving something around would also necessitate a 6pdr I think... we will see.

Would have to be a 6pdr not the 57mm... could manage an airborne version though.

Cheers

Tim

[tankbarrell]

Originally Posted by Tim Bell

Moving something around would also necessitate a 6pdr I think could manage an airborne version though.

I was thinking that, it would be right up your street.

[Tim Bell]

Originally Posted by tankbarrell

I was thinking that, it would be right up your street.

Know of any for sale/exchange?

Tim

[tankbarrell]

I've only seen one 6 pdr come up for sale in the last ten years, I got mine with a direct approach!

As rare as they are, airborne models are even rarer in private hands. You might get lucky with an exchange though.