The Ordinance QF 18 Pounder Gun formed the mainstay of British Artillery at outbreak of war in 1914. It was later post war adapated and fitted with Ruber tyres and towed by a Tractor similar to the Tractor the British Armies used to tow the Bofors Guns with too.
During the "Great War" the British forces successfully adapted the gun for Mounting on a Truck as an Anti Aircraft gun.
The Navy also developed an "elastic" type Mounting for the gun, Mounting it for Deck firing use.
To my way of thinking, just How did the Simon's not fail to spot this error? (Unless i suppose it be possible one of THEM instead) changed the label of the Instruction Sheeting....resulting in avoiding spending cash on re newing the "lost" 18 LB Gun instruction sheet? But resulting in a "couldnt care less chaos" for customers??? Why shoot your own Business right in the back by cheap skateing on getting the proepr instructions re drawn up and printed at the printers?
Either way, bad results and bad comment from customers followed....
How did this really happen then? dave Love drew the Instructions or who? A Subcontractor perhaps in Nottingham? Who can say?????
The same identical situation is now found to exist with our new re-issue TBA Mountain Howitzer gun kit. Originaly that kit had the trail stabilizers cast as two separate parts to be glued together. (These in practice, easily break on the assembled kit, and Dave and later, Fleurbaix, got complaints. The gun trailer arms are now sold as ONE piece castings only. We have observed a number of errors in the old Mountford range similar to these, requireing re editing of Instruction papers....These old errors might have contribued to the previous decline and then "sale" of that range of artillery kits.
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