2Pdr Attack Carrier

[tankbarrell]

I suspect you're correct. I have one with notches all the way round but looking through my picture files, I found the same differences you have.

[rnixartillery]

The handwheel on my 2 pdr is only notched part way round , located as a travel lock I believe.

Rob...…………….rnixartillery.

[Rob Sanders]

be interesting to know why there are the variations.
My thoughts are that originally they made the hand wheels with the notches part way round cause as was said they were a travel lock.
But, and Im guessing here I bet they found things didnt always line up correctly and at that point changed to the style with notches all the way round

[Ron Pier]

I've read that the notches are for traveling lock and hence they don't necessarily need to be all the way round. My AT gun has it's original brass data plate riveted to the carriage, which states that it was made by BSA in 1941. It came to me with both hand wheels missing, but I've finally managed to borrow some and get some cast in the same brass/bronze material. The elevation wheel has 3 spokes and only partially notched. But I've seen them in ally with 4 spokes on British guns.

The AT gun that the originals came from has quite a few differences to mine! So either it was built in a different year, or more likely by a different company...... Or both? Ron

[tankbarrell]

They did evolve over time with the cast aluminium pedal and seat brackets gradually being replaced with fabricated steel examples. It's not unknown to see a mix on one carriage, i.e. a fabricated pedal bracket and a cast seat bracket.
I assume they fitted the cast ones until they ran out and then fitted steel ones.

The elevating handwheel with the notches all round I have is in aluminium.

Ron, your telescope bracket looks fabricated, is it an original?

[Ron Pier]

Adrian my gun had received a hit, from what looks to me like a 20-30mm round.

The shield and mantlet were damaged, which I've straightened and repaired, but I have left the spang mark on the barrel. I can only guess that the sighting bracket was completely blown off or seriously damaged?

Since the 2 pounder AT gun shop is no longer open!!! With help from my fabrication friends, we've rebuilt the whole thing. All based on photos and measurements I took from the gun at Woolwich. But with corrections and modifications over the years as more information and samples became available.

It's condition when I acquired it was not helped at all from it's years of being stuck in concrete as a gate guard outside a museum in South Africa. Ron

[Ron Pier]

PS. As I acquired it 22 years ago. Ron