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Advance in military technology!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 27 older comments, and then…
• Tintin et Milou said:

  It's all about mobility. Up and including the first years of WW2, most European armies had troops that used bicycles for speed and mobility. It's quicker than walking which is how most soldiers got from A to B 😀

• thinkable move said:

  Who stole his saddle?

• beachcomber australia said:

  Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via Indread Coal who says before 1903

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  beachcomber australia Looks as if there was a proper clip type yokey to keep the gun in place. It's the local innovation, the proposed boot mechanism, that I fell in love with when I saw this letter.

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Tintin et Milou As long as the roads are somewhat paved.