Keywords: Smith gun and limber.JPG The Smith Gun was invented by the chief engineer of the Trianco Engineering Company East Molesey Surrey It was developed as a private venture in 1940 and offered to the British Army as an emergency gun for issue to the Home Guard It was a 3-inch smoothbore barrel mounted in a light carriage that consisted of little more than two wheels and an axle A limber was provided to carry ammunition The projectile was a 3-inch mortar shell propelled by a small charge of smokeless powder fired by a 0 38 pistol blank cartridge None saw any action and they were declared obsolete in 1945 Photographed at the Category Royal Armouries at Fort Nelson on 26-Apr-06 2006-04-27 own assumed Gaius Cornelius Smith Gun Royal Armouries at Fort Nelson |