Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . p the Yang-tze-kiang. GUX-CARRIAGE is a very important elementin the equipment of each piece of ordnance. Itrequires to be of great strength, and at the same time of considerable weight, in order that the wholeapparatus—gun and carriage together—may not bedriven backward by the recoil in firing. Field-guncarriages have, besides, to bear an enormous strainin passing at a rapid pace over broken, uneven, orrocky gioimd. To provide for this severe -wear andtear, every part is fitted -«ith the utmost precision,made of well-seasoned mate
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . p the Yang-tze-kiang. GUX-CARRIAGE is a very important elementin the equipment of each piece of ordnance. Itrequires to be of great strength, and at the same time of considerable weight, in order that the wholeapparatus—gun and carriage together—may not bedriven backward by the recoil in firing. Field-guncarriages have, besides, to bear an enormous strainin passing at a rapid pace over broken, uneven, orrocky gioimd. To provide for this severe -wear andtear, every part is fitted -«ith the utmost precision,made of well-seasoned material, and on strictmechanical principles. A large department, fittedwith splendid machinery, in the Royal Arsenal at^Yoolwich, called the Royal Carriage Department,is charged with this branch of manufacture for theBritish sei-vice. Cai-riages are of various kinds,according to the service for which they may berequired; but the leading kinds—viz., those forfield-ser-vice, and those for garrison or ship duty—are represented in the following figures, in. A, Field Gun and its Carriage:blocker trail; B, cheeks or brackets; C, axle-tree; D, ogee; E, trunnion-holes; F, wheel; G, felly; H, spokes;I, nave; K, tire or streak; L, rivets; a. eye or capsquare bolts; b, capsqnare; c, axle-tree hands; d, heads oftransom bolts; p, trunnion plates ;/, portfire clipper; ^, locking plate ; h, trail plate ; «, locking chain ; k, trail handle;I, handspike ring; m, elevating- screw ; «, handles of elevating screw. wnich the names of the principal parts are alsogiven. \Vlien the field-gun is to be moved, thetrad-plate is hooked to the LnrBER (q. v.), whichconverts the gun-carriage and limber into a fotir-
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