British 6inch Gun

[George Moore]

Originally Posted by rnixartillery

A friend of mine restored the gun for firepower,I'll see if he knows anymore about the history of it.
There were quite a few variations in the conversion to pneumatics between British and Australian workshops,limber conversions are a good example of this.


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

That woul be great,
It certaiunly seems something that ROF made up, I certainly have never seen another one like that. A lot of guns were converted prior to 1939, however the BEF had at least three styles of wheels. Strange though the ones fitted with the 24" wheels do not appear, they are either spoked variants or the those with the 20" wheels and wider tyres.
Re the limbers, I only have info on the WW1 and inter-war types. I think the inter war were converted from earlier types by having a "tracor towing attachment" fitted, they still retained the original spoked wheels.

George.

[Rob Endersbee]

Hi Guys,
We have the remains of one of these as our gate guardian at the Merredin Military Museum, had some of the "Modern" tyre adaptors fitted when we recovered it. Will get some photo's over Easter. I know of another more complete example and we have been trying to obtain it for years but it belongs to one of the "going to do it up someday" brigade.

Cheers

[rnixartillery]

Rob,

you have a nice list of Artillery down below, I have an L5 105mm pack howitzer in my collection that has been an ongoing passion to restore as there are very few over here in the UK.I am missing the 'Hand firing gear' if you know anyone who has a spare.
Any pictures of the 6" Howitzer would be great, a friend of mine has just received an unestored example which he intends to restore.


Rob....(yes another one ! )..........rnixartillery.

[George Moore]

Originally Posted by rnixartillery

Rob,

you have a nice list of Artillery down below, I have an L5 105mm pack howitzer in my collection that has been an ongoing passion to restore as there are very few over here in the UK.I am missing the 'Hand firing gear' if you know anyone who has a spare.
Any pictures of the 6" Howitzer would be great, a friend of mine has just received an unestored example which he intends to restore.


Rob....(yes another one ! )..........rnixartillery.

I do have quite a number of photos taken at Woolwich, plus a 1919 manual. Perchance is the one to be restored the one that was at Larkhill, that one was an inter-war type with the 24" tyres and Martin Parry type axletree conversion.
Purely out of interest ???? The rust moth really got to the carriage.

George.

[rnixartillery]

Originally Posted by George Moore

I do have quite a number of photos taken at Woolwich, plus a 1919 manual. Perchance is the one to be restored the one that was at Larkhill, that one was an inter-war type with the 24" tyres and Martin Parry type axletree conversion.
Purely out of interest ???? The rust moth really got to the carriage.

George.

Thats the one George,its in very poor condition.These artifacts should be placed in the hands of preservists BEFORE they are scrap and beyond it !

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

[George Moore]

Thanks for that, it is a rare one having the suspended stub axle, a la Martin Parry conversion.
I was at Larkhill and it was on the back of a truck ready to be taken away. There is a lot of stuff out in the open just rusting away....such a pity. Still I guess as we dont have enough money to pay our troops and equip them, looking after "old" stuff is not a high priority.

I have one photo of one in service, and I know Woolwich has the manuals.
The photo is I am sure from an excercise in the UK, date and unit unknown.

Best of luck with the restoration.

George.

[Tom Badger]

Some pictures I took of the two 6in 26cwt on display at the RAA museum at North Fort, Manly back in 2003.

Hopefully these are still in the collection in storage at Bandiana...

George, I got one of your Resicast models, nice work again!