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CharlieC


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This leichte Minenwerfer has turned up at Irvinebank in Queensland. Irvinebank is an old mining town in North Queensland which crashed when the Tin mines closed in the 1920s. The base plate and mortar tube looks like a standard neuer Art type but the tail is different from any of the surviving lMWs with tails I've seen in Qld. Initially I thought the tail was some sort of attempt at reconstruction but on closer inspection the tail is riveted together in a similar way to other lMWs and the spade assembly is similar to other lMWs. Has anyone seen a similar tail on lMWs? Any ideas why the form of the tail is different from the more common type?

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Charlie

(Edit - added an image of the "standard" tail from the Boonah lMW.)


-- Edited by CharlieC on Sunday 28th of February 2010 02:20:59 AM

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Brennan


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Hve never seen a trail & spade like that before. Only thoughts are is there enough sign to show damage that this arrangement might be a repair of? OR an early form as I have seen some early lMW without any trail or spade - so perhaps a conversion / update?? All entirely speculative unfortunately.

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The lMWs could be configured for different roles - the tail was only needed for firing at low angles so the mortar could be used as a light, short range field gun. For conventional mortar fire only the baseplate and tube was needed. Of the 11 surviving mortars in Qld only 7 of them have tails.

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This arrangement was especially employed in an anti-tank role. In fact, I think it might have been designed with that in mind. More info here:

http://www.landships.freeservers.com/7.85cm_leichtes_minenwerfer.htm



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