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...and I have since found out what it is. Anyone care to have a go at identifying it? It is 13.5 inches long and about an inch wide.


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Regards


Peter

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Looks like the R and L are backward. That would be left and right, don't you think?

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Its Right and Left from the enemies point of view, exit stage right, exit stage left. ;

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Adam.





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interesting but I have no clue to what it is or was used for.

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All right then, I'll tell you what it is. It seems it is part of the sighting system for the 25 pounder artillery gun. This bit is used for direct sighting at tanks and such like targets. An interesting piece of WW2 equipment.


Regards


Peter.

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pretty neat but was this hand held or mounted to the 25 pounder?

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It was mounted on the 25 pounder. I don't have a picture of how it was mounted but it was clamped on somehow.


Regards


Peter.

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"...I don't have a picture of how it was mounted but it was clamped on somehow...."








I believe that the sight is held in what amounts to a pair of pipe clamps (the kind of thing that plumbers use to fix copper pipes to the wall of a house).





Tom

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Heres some pix i took of a 25pdr. in Edinburgh castle. Sorry they are a bit dark.


joe





sighting system.


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head on view.


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info board.


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