And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
A 15 inch naval gun under construction at the Coventry Ordinance Works. September, 1917.
I remember that works building, it was an amazing place with the remnants of the crane tracks which went the length of the building. I was there in the early 1980’s when it was used as an EU intervention grain store, totally empty except for huge piles of grain.
Those seem to be awfully small hand tools for working on something that makes a behemoth like that. I've been around some pretty heavy machinery but the mind boggles at making something like that gun barrel.
I remember that works building, it was an amazing place with the remnants of the crane tracks which went the length of the building. I was there in the early 1980’s when it was used as an EU intervention grain store, totally empty except for huge piles of grain.
ReplyDelete"Dude - could you please move this just a smidge to the left ?"
ReplyDeleteNotice the stepped, interrupted locking rings. I always wondered how they machined them into the breech, and the plug.
ReplyDeleteThink about how they cut the rifling in that thing.
DeleteNeed to take another 0.010" from the bore!
ReplyDeleteThose seem to be awfully small hand tools for working on something that makes a behemoth like that. I've been around some pretty heavy machinery but the mind boggles at making something like that gun barrel.
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