Year | 2012 |
Date | 02-Nov |
Volume | 209 |
Issue | 4,442 |
Page | 674 |
Category | An Engineer's Day Out |
Part | 3 |
Title | The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich: Firepower Museum and the Greenwich Heritage Centre |
Author | Roger Backhouse |
Notes | Visits two military museums. British 25 pr., 1939 mountain howitzer, training mule, rocketry, American 75mm howitzer, Vickers Mark I 0.303 machine gun, oddities, First World War field gun, recoilless gun by Derek Burney, Greenwich Heritage Centre, "Wolf", comments, an Iraq self propelled gun, Moorfields Foundry faulty gun, Chinese guns used for Victoria crosses, further information, 19th Century test firing, section of Iraqi supergun |