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• Title:Photograph album of howitzer proof testing.
  
• Published/Created:[Coventry, England?] : [s.n.], [1916-1918]
  
• Physical Description:1 album (24 photographs) ; 13 x 16 cm.
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: UF475.G74 P46 1916
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
    

   
• Notes:Bound in contemporary gray cloth.
  
• Biographical / Historical note:The BL 8-inch howitzers Mark I-V entered service in 1915 and were used by the British throughout the First World War.
  
• Summary:Album of 24 gelatin silver photographs depicting the proof testing of howitzers from 1916 to 1918, for the British artillery. The first photograph is of "The Pater" and a couple depict the proof officer on the range. The remaining pictures depict howitzers of various size, including the 4.5" Howitzer, 5.5" BL Mark I, 8" BL Howitzer Mark V, 11" Naval Howitzer, and a Russian 3" field gun. Several other photographs depict an apparatus connected with time fuses. The captions note the names of test ranges ("Barnacle" and "Butterwick"), and the names of officers or ordnance manufacturers. It appears from one caption that the photographs were taken at the Coventry Ordnance Works.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Contents:[1] The Pater, August 1916 -- [2] Works Range, 4.5" Howitzer -- [3] Barnacle Range, proof of 5.5" B.L. Mark I, no. 34, Aug. 16 1916 -- [4] Barnacle Range, proof of 5.5" B.L. Mark I, no. 34, Aug. 16 1916 -- [5] Firing a round during proof of 5.5" B.L., Mark I, no. 34 -- [6] Proof officer, Coventry Ordnance Works Ld. August 16, 1916 -- [7] Barnacle Range, Aug 12, 1916. 8" B.L. Howitzer Mark V, no. 279. Proof officer and Mr. T.B. Smith -- [8] 8" B.L. Howitzers, Mark V, ready for proof. Lieut. H.W. Barras, R.A. -- [9] 8" B.L. Howitzer Mark V, ready for proof, Barnacle Range -- [10] C. Howdle, F. White, Greenfield -- [11] Firing a round during proof 8" B.L. Howitzer Mark V, no. 279 -- [12] 8" B.L. Howitzer Mark V -- [13] Firing a round of proof of 8" B.L. Howitzer Mark V -- [14] Steam tractor taking 8" B.L. Howitzer from range to works -- [15] Proof officer & manager of range, Mr. ... Macartney, Mr. T.B. Smith -- [16] Russian 3" field gun at Butterwick [?] Range -- [17] Russian 3" field gun at Butterwick [?] Range, Aug. 1916 -- [18] Proof of Russian T. & P. fuzes, "Set zero," Butterwick Range, Aug 22 1916 -- [19] Firing a round at proof of 8" B.L. Howitzer Mark V. -- [20] Electric seconds-pendulum. Proof of time fuzes at rest -- [21] August 1916. Apparatus for measuring delay in fuze ignition -- [22] Proof of 11" B.L. Naval Howitzer, March 1918, Lieut. Commder. A.W. Tomlinson -- [23] Proof of 6" B.L. Howitzer Mark I, March 1918, Mr. H.F. Neville -- [24] March 1918. Proof of 6" B.L. Howitzer Mark I.
  
• Subjects:Coventry Ordnance Works.
  Great Britain. Army. Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  Howitzers.
  Ordnance--Great Britain.
  Artillery--Great Britain.
  World War, 1914-1918--Artillery operations.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1916-1918.
  
• Genre/Form:Photographs.
  Gelatin silver prints.
  Photograph albums.