-----------------------+-----------------------+--------+----------+--------- Unit. | Contractor. | Number | Number | Number | |ordered.|completed |completed | | | at the | up to | | |signing of|April 17, | | |armistice.| 1919. -----------------------+-----------------------+--------+----------+--------- 4.7-inch gun carriage, |{Rock Island Arsenal | 303| 183| 183 model of 1906 |{Studebaker Corporation| 380| 88| 175 |{Walter Scott Co. | 250| 49| 57 | | | | 4.7-inch gun-carriage |{American Car & | 433| 433| 433 limber |Foundry Co. | | | |{Maxwell Motor Co. | 479| 82| 250 | | | | 4.7-inch gun caisson |{American Car & | 1,848| 320| 848 |Foundry Co. | | | |{Ford Motor Co. | 1,001| 106| 400 | | | | 4.7-inch cannon |{Northwestern Gun Co. | | 56| |{Watervliet Arsenal | | 93| -----------------------+-----------------------+--------+----------+--------- Sixteen of these units, also 48 which were previously on hand, were floated for overseas up to November 11, 1918. THE 5-INCH AND 6-INCH GUN MOUNTS. In the war emergency America sought to put on the front every pound of artillery she could acquire from any source whatsoever. Accordingly, before any of the manufacturing projects were even started, the Ordnance Department conducted a preparedness inventory of the United States to see what guns already in existence we might find that could be improvised for use as mobile artillery in France. The search discovered a number of heavy cannon that could serve the purpose--part of them belonging to the Army, these being the guns at our seacoast fortifications; part belonging to the Navy, in its stores of supplies for battleships; and part of them being the property of a private dealer, Francis Bannerman & Son, of New York. The guns for this improvised use were obtained as follows: