Artillery Transport
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Interviewer: And how were those guns moved?
By a quad, a four-wheel drive quad.
Just a box affair; four or five men,
the gunners would sit into it.
And next to the gun was the limber
full of ammunition, 25 pounders,
they weren't big, they were only about this long.
And the charge was about the same length.
But the charge consisted of,
I guess more or less, cordite, the explosive.
Cause you would use one charge to
send the shell farther and
put another different one higher,
much more cordite or whatever,
dig more higher explosive,
sends farther still.
Now that you had your ranging gun too,
you'd do this with the gun, you know.
Interviewer: Now the fellows who's job
it was to move those artillery shells,
that must have been a pretty risky job?
No. No.
Interviewer: They were all defused?
Just before they're put in, cap off,
but you could drop them and
they wouldn't explode.
It took eccentric, an eccentric movement.
They were rifled eh, the guns? (Yes).
And this eccentric was like a governor,
so that when it hit, it would explode.
The part from that was closed.
(Oh, ok). Yeah.
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