Image:60pdrMkICarriageMkII.jpg

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Description

Diagram of British 60 pounder Mk I gun on Mk II carriage with Mk II limber, in traveling position. It demonstrates how the gun and breech was transported carried well forward on the Mk II carriage, i.e. it could not be moved rearwards (towards the limber) to equalise the weight distribution as with Mk I and Mk II carriage. Most of the weight was carried on the carriage's wheels rather than the limber's.
This diagram depicts a gun in US Army service but is also indicative of British army service.
NOTE : Gun barrel is depicted truncated.
Source

Handbook of artillery : including mobile, anti-aircraft and trench matériel (1920). United States. Army. Ordnance Dept, May 1920, page 190.
http://www.archive.org/details/handbookofartill00unitrich
Date

May 1920
Author

United States. Army. Ordnance Dept
Permission
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