"ID this artillery piece?" Topic

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Gaz0045	23 Jan 2015 10:31 a.m. PST
spotted this today whilst visiting the Spanish army base at Viator, Almeria. There were several other guns of varying size and shape- they all had id plates but this one (of a pair) did not…my Google-fu has failed to find a match…… [URL=http://s276.photobucket.com/user/GergalGaz/media/DSCF0983_zps3838861c.jpg.html] [/URL] (I am presuming that it is post-war because it looked far more modern to all the others)
troopwo	23 Jan 2015 10:38 a.m. PST
Any chance it is an 18 pounder on a 25 pounder carraige?
bc1745	23 Jan 2015 10:48 a.m. PST
it seems quite close…… Maybe with a longer barrel?
gamershs	23 Jan 2015 12:12 p.m. PST
It may be the same gun. The picture from bc1745 has the gun out of battery (gun is all the way to it's rear and not in it's firing position) and the hydraulics would have pushed it back at least 2 to 3 feet. Suspect they did this to fit it into the display.
dwight shrute	23 Jan 2015 12:12 p.m. PST
pretty sure its a Vickers 105mm with some post 1950 tyres and maybe some other add ons .. scroll down the page here ; link
Jemima Fawr	23 Jan 2015 1:00 p.m. PST
They've got one of those in the Tenerife military museum (which is an artillery unit). I'm there in a few weeks, so I'll have a look. As has been said, I think it's a Vickers 105 and I think that I've already got some photos here somewhere, including the maker's plate.
Gaz0045	23 Jan 2015 1:12 p.m. PST
Well done chaps……..I didn't think it was an 18/25 lb'er…….Vickers 105/22 it is……..( second photo maybe the other gun of the pair!) link
Bob the Temple Builder	23 Jan 2015 1:48 p.m. PST
This 105mm Vickers Field Zgun was supplied to the Spanish Army before the outbreak of the SCW. It was modernised in the 1940s so that it could be towed by motor vehicles. The design formed the basis of the Vickers design that was part oft the he development of the 25-pounder gun/howitzer. This particular gun used to be on display in the former military museum in Barcelona.
Bob the Temple Builder	23 Jan 2015 1:50 p.m. PST
Another view of the same gun.
Bob the Temple Builder	23 Jan 2015 1:56 p.m. PST
This example was on display in Tenerife's military museum. (The figure in the background is a Spanish reenactor in German WWII uniform.)
Ron W DuBray	23 Jan 2015 5:28 p.m. PST
this is a photo of a Vickers 105, looks like the same gun.
Jemima Fawr	24 Jan 2015 4:08 a.m. PST
Bob, that's the fella in Tenerife! The SS Panzer-Grenadier wasn't there when I was last there, however… If anyone's on holiday in Tenerife, the military museum is excellent – housed in the old Almeida Fort on the harbour-front.