TRIALS OF KRUPP 10.5 CM GUN [Main Title]

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  • Title: TRIALS OF KRUPP 10.5 CM GUN [Main Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 41
  • Other titles: KRUPP COLLECTION [Series Title]
  • Summary: Trials of the Krupp 10.5cm 42 Prototype.
  • Description: Gun carriage and limber of 10.5cm Prototype is tested by a railway locomotive around a circular track. Gun is then driven across country by a Krupp Kfz 81 6x4 light truck and fired repeatedly at a proving ground. Heavy calibre railway gun visible in the background. Loading procedure. Gun is placed on chassis and moved to a cruciform mounting. Barrel elevated and depressed. Whole gun is rapidly rotated. Shell is loaded and fired and the procedure repeated. Reel Two has coverage of the same trials from a different angle.
  • Alternative Title: KRUPP COLLECTION [Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: GWY 41
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 41
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1941
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details:
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Krupp (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: industry, German - munitions: gun trials (object name) transport, German civilian - truck: Krupp 6x4 Kfz 81 (object name) weapons, German - gun: 10.5cm gun & [R and D] (object name) weapons, German - gun: railway gun & [R and D] (object name) Germany (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 957 ft; Running time: 7 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    GWY 41

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