| Mark Strachan | 31 Dec 2013 2:51 p.m. PST |
I am making up some forces for early WWI and I want to make some of the machine gun carriages used by the cavalry. Specifically for the French and Germans. I have an image of a French carriage from one of the Funcken books, but it is a poor quality image and Funcken's detail is often suspect. Can anyone point me to some photographs or, better still, some plans? |
Dr Mathias  | 31 Dec 2013 4:42 p.m. PST |
I've some pictures collected in a Pinterest folder: link I've not found many pictures on the subject. I planned on doing a German horse-borne MG team at one point myself. For artillery and horse harness in general I've found this site to be really interesting and useful: lovettartillery.com |
| Mark Strachan | 01 Jan 2014 3:02 a.m. PST |
Thanks Matt. This is great – something I can really work with. |
 Jeff Ewing  | 01 Jan 2014 5:33 p.m. PST |
There's a drawing of a French cavalry model on page 3 of _God Damn this War_ by Jaques Tardi. You can see it on Amazon preview here: link |
| drummer | 02 Jan 2014 3:39 a.m. PST |
The cart referred to by Jeff Ewing looks like a bit like a 75mm ammunition caisson with a MG on top. Interesting. Thanks for that Jeff! |
| Tommy20 | 02 Jan 2014 12:01 p.m. PST |
Old Glory makes a British Maxim on cavalry carriage that looks very similar to the one above. The gun itself would need to be replaced, though. link |
| monk2002uk | 02 Jan 2014 4:34 p.m. PST |
From the reading I have done, it is still not 100% clear how MG limbers were actually used. There is definite evidence from German sources that cavalry MG limbers could travel in the advance guard of a cavalry force. On one occasion near Le Cateau, a cavalry MG team came into action with the gun/s still mounted on the limber/s. With British and French cavalry, there was specialised equipment that enabled MGs to be carried dismantled on horses. Typically the load of a single MG was distributed across two horses IIRC. This enabled MGs to travel with the squadrons rather than further back with the various wagons. Robert |
| monk2002uk | 03 Jan 2014 1:15 p.m. PST |
Here is a photo of a British MG pack horse (thanks to Alan Lockhart):
Here are two photos of the German MG limber (thanks to Michael Fis):
Robert |
| Mark Strachan | 16 Jan 2014 1:59 p.m. PST |
Thanks to all who posted here. from all this information, and a couple of other images I found, I have built a German MG08 carriage and limber. You can see the results of my efforts here: stracmark.blogspot.co.nz |
| monk2002uk | 21 Feb 2014 1:08 a.m. PST |
French cavalry MG limber here:
Robert |
