Landships II

Mortier de 220 Mle 1915 et 1916 Schneider good set of drawings lots of detail.

Material de 75 Mle1912 some good Drawings good info for this important export gun.

Materiel de 155 C Mle 1904 T.R. good drawings.

Canon de 75 Mle 1897 Portee  truck born Artillery useful drawings and illustrations.

Canon de 14 C/M Mle 1910 Schneider good drawings

Canon de 155 Court Mle 1915 et 1917 Schneider good drawings

Cheers

Your Welcome there are quite a few others available I'm still grappling with the search terms, will post a few more later mostly smaller mortars 58s, 150, 240etc and the 37mm trench gun.... some though are conspicuous by their absence 65 and 80 mm Mountain guns for example... so far.... 

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Trench Mortars 58 No1 bis, No2, 150, 240, 340 Manuals five total good detail and drawings.

Mortier de 280 TR Schneider Pt1

Mortier de 280 TR Schneider Pt2 and 3 good detail includes photos of transportation

Matériel du canon de 37 modèle 1916 T.R good drawings very detailed

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This is such a great find Ironsides. So far I have only one to add:

Les Établissements Schneider. Matériels d'artillerie et bateaux de guerre.

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6516812h.r=.langEN

Our native French speakers will probably yield even more amazing finds.

Many thanks again for sharing the link! Regards, Pat

Another good one with good detail and drawings including the battery wagons, field forge etc

Canon de 95  Mle 1888

the previous guns to the above, Very detailed includes battery wagons and more...5*

Canon de 80 et 90

Cheers

And yet another manual  of the 95 mle 1888 as a fortress gun in use in the Maginot line I believe

Canon de 95 Mle 1888 sur affût de côte sous casemate 1938 good detail and drawings

St Chamond 155mm mle 1915

DU MATÉRIEL DE 155 COURT MODÈLE 1915 ST-CHAMOND good detail includes drawings

An excellent book with a great deal of detail on a number of older guns, 150L, 120L, 155mm 1881, 220mm 1889, 95 90 and 80 guns, includes many drawings and detailed info.

Règlement de manoeuvre de l'artillerie à pied. Service des bouches à feu de siège et de place

From this search which turns up a lot of good stuff  

Règlement de manoeuvre de l'artillerie à pied. Service des Bouches a Feu 

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Ironsides wrote:

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The Holy Grail?

155mm GPF french manual complete with drawings

155 GPF manual

 

Cheers

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 I dub thee Sir Galahad but hope you aren't translated with the Grail as the original Galahad was - well not until you've found more in Gallica.

I notice the manual is "Titre V" (Volume V) - so there's probably more about the GPF in Gallica - provided the search engine can be persuaded to

disgorge them.

Regards,

Charlie

Hello,

Very interesting documents. I am very interested by railguns. I tried to find something on this subject, without success.

Another one - Canon de 155 L Mle 1917 Schneider (not the howitzer - the gun).

The 155mm gun was in service with a number of European countries between the wars. The Wehrmacht used captured 155mm guns for coastal defence in WW2.

155mm manual from Gallica

The manual has lots of drawings of the gun and its transport vehicles

Regards,

Charlie

Had a thought....

Maybe it would be a smart idea to aggregate all the links to the manuals into an article on Landships II.

It would save having to search the forum for the links and be a resource for the casual researcher.

What say you?

Regards,

Charlie

Another thank you for these!

As Charlie says above, "you could just about build a gun from these plans." And that's what I'm about to do.  Next week, I will visit a  museum  to make measurements so that I can make dimensioned engineering drawings of French 75 mm Modele 1897, then scale down for a 1:10 to 1:5 model. The French document, with its colorized drawings and especially the isometric views, are a great supplement to the orthometric, monochrome drawings in the US Army TM 9-1305.

Greg