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Our big guns shelling the enemy's back area

  • fulvue said:
    I can perhaps add a bit more to this image:

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British gun going to its position, Battle of Flanders, Ypres, Belgium, 1914

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  • SASH155 said:
    Apparently this was a 7.5in (190mm) Mk. III naval gun used on a static siege mount to shell Nieuport in Belgium. 14 of them were salvaged from the pre-dreadnaught battleship Swiftsure when it was decommissioned in 1917, with some going to coastal defense in Britain and a few for siege work in Belgium along the coast there. However, I must confess that this gun looks larger than 7.5 inch, perhaps a 9.2 inch or even a 12 inch spare barrel for a rail road gun.
  • Harry said:
    Not so much a tractor, something that hardly existed at the time, more a steam-powered traction engine.
  • phrawggmak said:
    that gun isn't big enough. they should go back to base and try harder.
  • Max Schmitt said:
    It's only the barrel.
  • incredible face said:
    It Appears to be a Foster Daimler tractor, a 105hp petrol engine driving through a reverse cone clutch and gearbox, with 2 forward speeds and one reverse, , the same sleeve valve engine went on to power the early tanks www.alamy.com/soldiers-with-a-daimler-foster-tractor-ww1-...