TANKFEST: The Trouble with the Gun
File: 2023007-0088
Kuwait Arena, at The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, on Friday 23rd June 2023.
About the photograph.
The object seen on the left side of the photograph is an artillery limber. It is like a box on a trailer, designed to carry 32 artillery shells for the field gun (explained below) in a cupboard-like storage box, covered with two doors. It is designed to be towed by a Morris C8 Field Artillery Tractor, often known as a Quad, which is basically a truck.
The object on the right side of the photo, is the British and Commonwealth artillery piece, known as Ordnance QF 25-Pounder. It is a field gun and howitzer artillery, with the ability to combined both direct-fire (field gun) and high-angle (howitzer) abilities. It was calibre for 3.45in / 87.6mm shells which weighted at 25 pounds (approx. 11.3kg), hence calling it a “25-pounder” gun. It was designed to be reloaded as quickly as possible, allowing a high rate of firing, thus “QF” meaning Quick Firing.
While the artillery limber is towed by the truck, the limber in turn tows the field gun, so you have a train made up of the truck, limber, and gun.
Here in the photograph, you see the re-enactors playing Second World War British soldiers, having a little bit of trouble trying to hook the field gun onto the limber. They were investigating and trying to figure out what the problem is.
The problem was taking a matter of many minutes, and caused one of the museum staff (the man in the civilian clothes with the hat, seen on the right) to come over, to find out what is the hold-up.
It was a very bright sunny day hence the strong daylight, and I figured to use Adobe Lightroom change it into black and white for a dramatic feel.
They did manage to get the problem fixed, so they can tow the limber and field gun off the arena for other military vehicles to parade around.
The artillery pieces were designed in the 1930s, and used in the Second World War, and also used by other nations during the 1950s and 1960s.
About TANKFEST and The Tank Museum.
The Tank Museum is found next to the British Army military base, simply called Bovington Camp, and is used by various tank regiments.
The writer Rudyard Kipling once visited Bovington in 1923, and saw some damaged tanks left from the First World War. He recommended that a museum should be set up.
However the museum was simply a shed, and was not open to the public until about 1947, when the museum was finally set up.
By about 1982, the museum was expanded and modernized, it housed many various different tanks in the Exhibition halls, along with working tanks which are often show in the live action arena.
The museum also has the only working German Tiger I tank, known as Tiger 131.
TANKFEST is an annual live action re-enactment event showing off various working tanks in staged display, in the museum’s showground known as Kuwait Arena.
For more information, just Google “TANKFEST, The Tank Museum, Bovington.”
You are free and welcome to comment on my photograph, about the photograph itself, or about the subject in the photo, or about your similar experience. The Comment Box is NOT an advertising billboard to promote any Groups. If you want to promote the groups, do it in YOUR own Photo Page or YOUR own Photostream!
TANKFEST: The Trouble with the Gun
File: 2023007-0088
Kuwait Arena, at The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, on Friday 23rd June 2023.
About the photograph.
The object seen on the left side of the photograph is an artillery limber. It is like a box on a trailer, designed to carry 32 artillery shells for the field gun (explained below) in a cupboard-like storage box, covered with two doors. It is designed to be towed by a Morris C8 Field Artillery Tractor, often known as a Quad, which is basically a truck.
The object on the right side of the photo, is the British and Commonwealth artillery piece, known as Ordnance QF 25-Pounder. It is a field gun and howitzer artillery, with the ability to combined both direct-fire (field gun) and high-angle (howitzer) abilities. It was calibre for 3.45in / 87.6mm shells which weighted at 25 pounds (approx. 11.3kg), hence calling it a “25-pounder” gun. It was designed to be reloaded as quickly as possible, allowing a high rate of firing, thus “QF” meaning Quick Firing.
While the artillery limber is towed by the truck, the limber in turn tows the field gun, so you have a train made up of the truck, limber, and gun.
Here in the photograph, you see the re-enactors playing Second World War British soldiers, having a little bit of trouble trying to hook the field gun onto the limber. They were investigating and trying to figure out what the problem is.
The problem was taking a matter of many minutes, and caused one of the museum staff (the man in the civilian clothes with the hat, seen on the right) to come over, to find out what is the hold-up.
It was a very bright sunny day hence the strong daylight, and I figured to use Adobe Lightroom change it into black and white for a dramatic feel.
They did manage to get the problem fixed, so they can tow the limber and field gun off the arena for other military vehicles to parade around.
The artillery pieces were designed in the 1930s, and used in the Second World War, and also used by other nations during the 1950s and 1960s.
About TANKFEST and The Tank Museum.
The Tank Museum is found next to the British Army military base, simply called Bovington Camp, and is used by various tank regiments.
The writer Rudyard Kipling once visited Bovington in 1923, and saw some damaged tanks left from the First World War. He recommended that a museum should be set up.
However the museum was simply a shed, and was not open to the public until about 1947, when the museum was finally set up.
By about 1982, the museum was expanded and modernized, it housed many various different tanks in the Exhibition halls, along with working tanks which are often show in the live action arena.
The museum also has the only working German Tiger I tank, known as Tiger 131.
TANKFEST is an annual live action re-enactment event showing off various working tanks in staged display, in the museum’s showground known as Kuwait Arena.
For more information, just Google “TANKFEST, The Tank Museum, Bovington.”
You are free and welcome to comment on my photograph, about the photograph itself, or about the subject in the photo, or about your similar experience. The Comment Box is NOT an advertising billboard to promote any Groups. If you want to promote the groups, do it in YOUR own Photo Page or YOUR own Photostream!