First I would love to obtain a 47mm at the values mentioned, but I am afraid there is no way
to get one to Canada at the presnt time ~ Common in the UK, never found over here.
Okay; these are what I purchasesd. The first a common Wincherster 37x120, but some what better than my current example.
Then this, now the description is humerous, how any one identified it as this is , well beyond me.:tinysmile_hmm_t:
But it is one of those 1915 exported to the UK 37x136 cases. I have had these before and there seems to be some confusion
if not mystery as to what was done with them. An article published in 1917 but using 1916 PE&M cases for the Mclean Gun as an example
clearly states cases were exported to the UK and shows a shipping case (if that is what it is). So even here there is some confusion as what is shown went to Russia loaded and what went to the UK in 19i5 was not. Though maybe not to be discussed in 1915- a secret ?
Roberts book Vol. 2 A Gun for all Nations would lead one to belive that these were loaded with BSC type projectiles as for the French BSC contracts.
I think it is clear that these cases were shipped empty and meant to be loaded in the UK with UK projectiles, 1pr stocks on hand would make sense.
There is mention of these as a subcalibre use after some guns were damaged also. The original use was if I have it correctly was to arm small gunboats
of some sort or another. Now there is this WW1 German image of captured British equipment no date or location given. What is clear is that there are two 37mm guns of American make on Navel mountings. These are the type of gun that would use the American 37x136 cartridge and are pretty much the same as U.S. Navel pattern guns. Where would the Germans have captured these. Well these was a very successful German attack later in the war (I have read of it and can't remember the name) in a flooded canal ridden area of near coastal Belgium where there were about 5000 British captured being trapped , there are images of the prisners being marched out. So in this area small armed boats could well have been taken. So this round with the 1pr projectile could be correct, that said we all know that one 37mm fits any other ~. The only thing I can say is that these have been together for a while, long enough for the projectile to have been pushed a bit too far in over time. One thing seems rather certain is that these cases being shipped empty to be loaded, this would be one of the two projectile types used. But until I see the thing I can't add any more for now.:tinysmile_hmm_t: