tjejwaugh

Hello LBDR and Ray,

 

just so happens that I am doing an 18Pr restoration in Sydney. So far have the gun, gun limber and hind ammo wagon - just need the front ammo wagon of the type found by Ray to complete the set.

 

In the bits and pieces accumulated over the past 10 years, I have some spares of some of the items for sale/swap. I am pretty sure that a spare hind ammo wagon is amongst them, as converted to pneumatic wheels (unfortunately no axle, only the cast supports).

 

That may be of interest to LBDR and others, but the type shown in the photo posted by LBDR looks like a front ammo wagon with wooden draw bar replaced by a steel perch and stay bars. Australia used the rear ammo wagon as it had the steel perch already, and did not need much upgrading. An example is at the Lytton museum in Brisbane. Other hind ammo wagons were also used behind infantry support tanks in PNG to carry small arms ammo in the advance.

 

The WW1 gun limbers and front ammo wagons were not used in Australia in WW2. The difference between the gun limber and ammo wagons is that gun limber used 3 tiers and ammo wagon used 4, so is noticeably higher.

 

regards,

 

Damien Nicholas aka Nick

Hi Damien wondering if you could tell me what spares you may have for sale for the limbers chasing a break assembly for the rear limber Regards Tim

Glad to be part of the site' I am from rural Queensland and my father and I are avid collectors of the light horse era my grandfather was e vet in the lighthorse before it was disbanded and then AIF for a short period and finished up as a captain in the airforce as a navigator Dad is part owner of a fully restored 1915 limber and we are now working on a 1916 Metro GS wagon So that is why I have joined so hopefully we can gain some more knowledge of the horse drawn transports Regards Tim