Support wagons for 120mm Krupp howitzers
The spare carriage wagon had the same
limber as the gun, and carried the same number of projectiles, besides three
wheels with their accessories, a shaft, an axletree, a draught pole, a
swingletree, a splinter bar, a traversing lever, and two alluminium chests.
The wheels were fitted on a pivot bore by the cover of the wagon, while the
axletree was fixed between the two boxes, secured by a linchpin with chain
and grommet. The
carriage-chest carried a monkey wrench, a belt with
loop for the shoulder, a fuze bag with strap, a bag with straps for primers,
a pair of pincers, a hammer, a fuze-setting key. |
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The tools-chest
carried 8 leather disks for the wheels, a brass disk for the shaft, a big
bottle of oil, a big box of tallow, a spare hub, an elevating screw, 2
back-washers, 4 linch-washers, 2 linchpins, 2 limber-hook keys, a jack, a
limber-hook, a trail-eye, a limber-chain, 6 spokes, a
driving rope. |
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The limber of
the field forge loocked like that
of the gun limber, but without trail-eye for sponge and the loop for the
lever. A pick, a spade, 2 hatchets, 2 water buckets, a box of grease, a
padlock, a sledge-hammer, a cross peen hammer, and a bag containing a
linchpin, a lantern, a limber-hook key and 8 leather disks were hung on the
walls of the chest. The wagon body
was composed by a frame, a ventilator with its box, a blast-furnace, a grindstone, a vice
and a sheet iron chest, carrying horseshoes, supplies and every kind of
blacksmith tools packed in six wooden boxes. |
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The howitzer
was provided with two different kind of store wagons. Their limbers were
manufactured along the same broad outline of the gun limber, but with a
higher chest. Outside they both carried a box of grease, 2 axes, 2 hatchets,
2 spades, a pick, a water bucket and 2 padlocks. Inside the
chest the store wagon Nr. 1
carried the veterinary medicine-box, the bag of the wheeler, 2 anvils with
their hammers, 2 whet-stones, a big bottle of oil, a big box of tallow, a box
with screws, nuts and bolts of various kinds, 2 linchpins, 8 straps for
linchpins, 2 linch-washers, a back-washer and 8 leather disks. |
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The N. 2 carried the bag of the saddler, a
box with writing implements, a driving rope, 5 horse-brushes, 5 curry-combs,
2 linchpins, 8 straps for linchpins, 2 linch-washers, a back-washer and 8
leather disks. The wagon body
was almost the same as the caisson of the ammunition wagon, with only some
minor differences. A scythe, 2 wheels, a folding pole, 8 leather straps and 4
padlocks were hung on the walls of the chest. Inside the chest the store
wagon Nr. 1 carried the veterinary
medicine-box, 15 reaping-hook and a lantern, while
the Nr. 2 another lantern, 3
master bars, 2 splinter bars, 2 swingletree, 12 spokes and a jack. |