interesting photo of parts

[KABAR2]

while researching something else I came across a Royal Ordnance website,
as I went through the photos I came across this one, where parts for the  restoration of an
Armstrong gun were being displayed, it gives a good shot of the screwbreech and other parts.



http://www.rofnottingham.co.uk/04_people1_01.htm

And one more photo of a Carronaid mounted on a field carriage.

[cannonmn]

Thanks for the interesting photos.  Always the skeptic, I have to take issue with the authenticity of the carriage in the second photo.  It looks like one of the bosses told the workers "Ok you blokes, get cracking and make up a fitting carriage for this little tube so we can fill that vacant spot on the display floor."

The axle looks like about a 3/4 in. dia. shaft, and it looks like they used sheet metal for the sides of the part connecting the gun to the front of the trail.  Pretty amateurish.  I'm not saying that carronade was never mounted on a field carriage, but I hope if it was, the carriage was constructed more substantially than the one shown.

[Blaster]

Interesting pictures.  Thanks KABAR2

[GGaskill]

Also the wheels are dished but are mounted perpendicularly instead of with the lower spokes perpendicular giving an outward spread to the wheels.

[dan610324]

in some antique drawings you can see that they used to mount dished wheels in an straight angle to the ground .

[RocklockI]

on the right in that photo is a barrel section or bolt gage showing the rifling .

[RocklockI]

That second photo looks like it would make a dandy "mountain rifle' carriage like the kind transported on livestock .

[KABAR2]

RocklockI,

If you are referring to the piece with the octagon shape to it

that is part of the large screw breech on the left of the photo.

[RocklockI]

Yep thats what I was looking at . wrong agian !