PRECIS 
AND 
TRANSLATIONS. 
“ REYUE D’ARTILLERIE.” 
THE FIELD GUN OF THE FUTURE. 
A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF GENERAL WILLE’S 
RECENT WORK. 
BY 
GASTON MOCH, Capitaine d'artillerie. 
PRECIS BY 
Lieut.-Colonel F. E. B. Loraine, late E.A. 
(Continued from No. 10 , Vol. XIX .— Conclusion.) 
Wheels and Axles. 
The May number gives a further instalment of tlie above interesting subject 
from the same able pen. General Wille, though admitting the necessity of 
wheels of the same diameter and pipe-box, would have them vary in strength, so 
as to give lighter ones to limbers and wagons than to gun carriages. He would 
have the lighter ones of such strength that if required under stress for a gun 
carriage they should be able to withstand the strain of a hundred rounds. The 
German service wheel with a diameter of 4 ft. 7£ ins. weighs 192 lbs. The 
General, who designed it in 1873, would now replace it with two wheels of 165 
lbs. and 143 lbs., and hopes that the Mannesmann process will enable him to 
utilise iron tubing. 
Limbers. 
The General would have the question of springs or elastic buffers for limbers 
thoroughly studied, inasmuch as the chief damage to these results from the 
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