Yep, it's a caisson! And it's limbered! I
was - years ago - going to do a big rant on this, but someone did a far politer
one on Treefrog - than I would ever have
managed; and the Wikipedia page makes it all quite clear. But it would
be nice if we could get the few remaining dullards to stop calling (usually) ACW
(usually) limbers 'caissons'! They are the same people who put heavy towers on
their war-elephants, machine-guns on shoulders and burnable stores on tank's
engine louvres!
You can even have a caisson behind a
British/ACW style limber, but that's half the point, it's as much about the
position as the design- the limber is the pivot between the horse team/towing tractor and the towed piece.
And this was where the French kept most of
their ammunition - before adapting the British system later in the century.
The Aeros
SA on some of the sheets is the original company name, created in 1955 to
promote model aircraft, it faltered against the likes of Revell, Airfix and -
domestically - Heller, leading to the
specialisation in figures and the eventual Historex
brand-mark.
Hi Hugh, thanks, Googling around this is the first time I saw details of the underside of the caisson and part that connects the front and rear axels. Thanks very interedting article.
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Glad it's been of some help Alan, half the credit belongs to Mr Foy of the http://prometheusinaspic.blogspot.com/ Blog; I think the yellow page is from the actalogues, the rest was from him!
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