Artillery Trailers

[Tony Mathers]

Len Trawin
Early British Quick Firing Artillery: Field and Horse

Softcover, ISBN 1854861549
Publisher: Nexus Special Interests, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom, 1997
Used - Like New. 406 pages, prof ill b/w drawings , next best thing to owning the artillery - This landscape format handbook, designed for modellers and military historians, provides detailed scaled plans, drawings and descriptions of gun carriage design of the Boer Wars and World War I. It covers topics such as: breechloading 15 pounders; quickfiring 18 pounders; 4.5 inch Howitzers; 16 wheel variations; limbers and ammunition wagons; miscellaneous stores; sight development; and harness...

http://www.amazon.co.uk//gp/offer-li...=bkfndr76-b-21

[George Moore]

Hi Tony, Trewins book is a mine of information, with harness details, details of the fittings for the pole, plus an extensive list of wheel types with drawings and details. Also some exploded views of limbers and ammunition wagons....unfortunately it does not list the "trailer number"....least i have not found it. The official handbooks are a better source for that.....
Rob,
You have an extensive collection from the handbook, I think some trailers were re-classified once they were updated with the Martin Parry conversion to pneumatic tyres.
I have some photo's from 1940, mostly equipment captured by the Axis forces....There are some differences between limbers used by some Commonwealth forces....there is evidence that those possibly converted in Australia had a beam axle replacing the old axletree....when converted to pneumatic tyres. The perch allowed the limbers to be connected....the Morris FAT had space for ammunition, but there is a lot of evidence that they towed limbers as well.
Another subject that needs much closer investigation, time to pool resources ????

George.

[Rob Beale]

This link should take you to a 1940 film clip that features the Morris CDSW gun tractors with 18 pdr and No.29 trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =EhCnhS4kwZQ

(It also shows the Bren No2 MkI)

Rob

[Rob Beale]

This is another propaganda film to allay the fears of the population about the threat of japanese expansion in the pacific.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srVk9D7A30E

Some good shots of the Morris CDSW, and others of heavy AA guns, with predictors, sound ranging and range finders etc.

Lots of other interesting stuff too.