------------------------+------------------------+--------+---------+--------- Unit. | Contractor. | Number | Number | Number | |ordered.|completed|completed | | |Nov. 11, |Apr. 17, | | | 1918. | 1919. ------------------------+------------------------+--------+---------+--------- 155-mm. howitzer |Osgood Bradley Car Co. | 900| 136| 369 carriage | | | | | | | | 155-mm. carriage | do. | 49| | 0 replacement parts | | | | | | | | 155-mm. howitzer | do. | 250| | 93 carriage | | | | | | | | Do |American Rolling Mill | 1,270| 18| 26 |Co. (old Mosler Safe | | | |contract) | | | | | | | Do |Rock Island Arsenal | 172| | 0 | | | | 155-mm. howitzer | | | | carriage limbers |Maxwell Motor Co. | 2,575| 273| 700 | | | | Do |Rock Island Arsenal | 100| | 0 | | | | 155-mm. howitzer caisson|Ford Motor Co. | 8,937| 4,373| 8,937 | | | | 155-mm. howitzer cannon |American Brake Shoe & | | | |Foundry Co. | | 1,172| 1,789 ------------------------+------------------------+--------+---------+--------- THE 155-MILLIMETER G. P. F. GUNS. The reproduction in the United States of the French 155-millimeter G. P. F. (the French designation) gun presents much the same story as that of the howitzer of equal size--a story of difficulties in translating plans, writing into them the precision of finishing measurements that the French factory usually leaves to the skill of the mechanic himself, difficulties in finding manufacturers willing to undertake the work, and then of providing them with suitable raw materials and machinery, and, above all, of locating the necessary skilled mechanics.