The bombardier, and pocket gunnerAdye, Ralph Willett
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The bombardier, and pocket gunner
Adye, Ralph Willett
Artillery -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Artillery drill and tactics
empty boxes | 11 — 27 |
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6 Prs. light battalion gun | 6 — — |
Carriage without boxes, iron axletrees | 9 2 — | 24 1 21
Limber, with empty boxes | 8 3 21 |
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5½ Inch howitzer, light | 4 3 7 |
Carriage, without boxes | 10 — 7 | 24 — 14
Limber, with empty boxes | 9 1 — |
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24 Prs. platform travelling carriage | 22 3 — |
Standing carriage for do. iron trucks, | |
and tackles of the carriage | 13 3 16 | 84 2 16
Iron gun | 48 — — |
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Ball cartridge waggon, Duke of Richmond’s| |
pattern, with spare pole and swingle | 16 1 17 |
trees | | 36 1 17
Charge of musquet ammunition | 20 — — |
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Common pattern ammunition waggon, altered| 16 2 — |
Charge of ammunition | 20 — — | 36 2 —
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New infantry ammunition cart | 9 1 14 |
Charge of ammunition | 12 — — | 21 1 14
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Common sling cart, complete | 17 1 14 |
Common truck carriage | 12 2 21 |
Common hand cart | 4 1 — |
Forge waggon, complete | 13 2 14 |
Dimensions of certain parts of carriages, the knowledge of which
may prevent many mistakes in arranging the different pieces for
disembarkation, or in other similar situations.
_Axletrees._—Most of the field carriages are now made with _iron_
axletrees; the dimensions of which are as follows:
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