2Pdr Attack Carrier

[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

[Barry J. Cox]

Ron:

Very very nice restoration.

My ATG is a 1942 Australian built unit. Both hand wheels have the notches all the way around.

No reason to suspect that the unit was ever altered.

[Rob Sanders]

Did a little more work today cleaning and painting where the front idler wheels sit. also began to drill out the broken studs so I can fit the mudguards

[David Dunlop]

Very interesting machine, Rob. Do you know how many were built and how many survive today?

David