Image: Railway Artillery Recoil Systems Diagrams

Description: Diagrams showing the 4 main railway artillery recoil systems in use in the World War I era : Cradle recoil, Top Carriage recoil, Sliding recoil, Rolling recoil.
Title: Railway Artillery Recoil Systems Diagrams
Credit: Railway Artillery: A Report on the Characteristics, Scope of Utility, Etc., of Railway Artillery, Volume I, page 51 by Harry W Miller, United States Army Ordnance Department. Washington, Government Print Office, 1921. Downloaded from http://www.archive.org/details/railwayartiller00deptgoog
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