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Neil_Baumgardner

Cant say when or why this occured to me...

At the Patton Museum:

At the Virginia War Memorial museum:

Get the idea??? Wink

Neil

JimWeb

Isnt that gun mount at the VWMM from a Mk VIII International?

IIRC the earlier ones had a taller pedestal?

Neil_Baumgardner

Dunno.... VWM identifies it as a

"Tank Cannon
Mk II, 6-pounder Hotchkiss
Enfield Ordnance Company
United Kingdom
World War One"

When I posted this pic on the old board, David Reasoner replied that:

"I recall that the original Mk.I tank had a longer-barrel version of the 6-pdr, adapted from obsolete naval guns. The gun was shortened on later tanks to prevent the muzzle end from getting rammed into the dirt during trench crossing. This may be where the Mk.II designation comes in, the original longer gun possibly being the Mk.I. As a side note, surplus 6-pdr Mk.II tank guns were reissued during WW2 for use on armed merchant ships and some motor launches. Thus completing the cycle of naval gun to tank gun back to naval gun."

www.afvnews.ca/cgi-bin...read/65814

Neil

JimWeb

er? weren't we talking about the gun mount? not the gun itself?

Neil_Baumgardner

Thats all I know about either...

Neil

David_Reasoner

- Neil_Baumgardner

Thats all I know about either...

Neil

Either way, it's nice to know that someone actually read and remembered one of my posts! Laughing

David

P.S. Unfortunately, I can't provide any enlightment on the 6pdr. mountings either, unless you are interested in the naval ones.

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