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The O.C. 10th F'.B. R.A., writes from Camp Matashah, Salarzai Valley, with 
Malakand Field Force, 20th Oct., 1897 :—I enclose two prints which will explain 
a device adopted by my battery for, if necessary, crossing guns over a weak 
bridge of narrow track. A couple of old tree trunks were cut down at Uch camp 
near Chakdara Fort, and three rough axles made so as to give a track of 4 feet 
only. The gun wheels fit on to these wooden axle-trees—the gun is slung under 
one of them—and the gun carriage and limber frame are up-ended and their 
proper axle-tree arms let down through a hole cut on one side of centre of the 
wooden axle. By this device, using five men only for draught, I took a gun 
across the Pan j kora bridge. The concentrated load put on the bridge at one time was 
5 men, say 7 cwt. A 
Gun, say 7 cwt. >18 cwt, 
2 wheels, say 4 cwt. j 
The load with the limber frame is only 14 cwt. and with the wagon body much 
the same. I send this as it may be of interest as a means of crossing a short, 
narrow and weak bridge or piece of causeway under stress of circumstances. 
