SELF-ADJUSTING- FIRING LANYARD FOR FIELD ARTILLERY. 
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This fuze key is also convenient to hold when pulling 
the lanyard to fire the gun. As soon as the tube has been 
fired the fuze key should be allowed to drop out of the 
liand ; so that no strain comes on the lanyard when the 
gun recoils. 
The lanyard is made short as possible, it should only be sufficiently 
long, when taut, to allow the fuze key to be just clear of the gun-wheel. 
The friction tubes will be carried in a bandolier, attached with two 
straps to the left side of the top of the Mark II. carriage, and in the 
Mark I. carriage must be fixed to the left bracket, abreast of the vent. 
The bandolier, to be made of leather, will hold 25 (one box of) fric¬ 
tion tubes, and will have a pocket in which the fuze key will be placed 
when the gun is out of action. The bandolier will close like an enve¬ 
lope and fasten with a tie (the head of the tie, which is fixed to the body 
of the bandolier, to go through a hole in the flap of the envelope). 
Of course, a fair trial will bring many suggestions of improvements to 
any new idea, and the writer does not pretend that this small addition 
to the already complicated mechanism of a field gun is by any means 
as yet perfect, but it has answered very well in u N ” Battery during 
the short time it has been on trial, and there is no reason why it should 
break down as it can be made very strong. 
