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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:15 am Post subject: Re: Bucharest. Muzeul Militar National
That looks like a Montigny mitrailleuse: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrailleuse en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...trailleuse In Morges there is mitrailleuse, just a different model, maybe a Reffye: www.flickr.com/photos/...603782891/ Massimo

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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:22 am
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- Massimo_Foti

That looks like a Montigny mitrailleuse:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrailleuse
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...trailleuse

In Morges there is mitrailleuse, just a different model, maybe a Reffye:
www.flickr.com/photos/...603782891/

Massimo

Yep, in that first Wiki link, there are a couple of references to Dr. Patrick Marder. I'm 99.99% sure that's who I was corresponding with. He was very knowledgeable, genial and helpful. IIRC, we determined it was a Reffye (or Montigny) design or variant. It's been a couple of years. I think I got steered to him from a Romanian Army history* website where I had linked "our" thread and asked about this.

www.militaryhistoryonl...leuse.aspx

*http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?s=7d4991d9362d1353d0fb9d96e5015823&showforum=1

Surprise, surprise, Mircea87 is a poster over there, so he can probably help us out on a lot of stuff if he checks in. I found folks on that forum pretty helpful, the little bit I've visited. There is also a publication on Romanian artillery that might interest you, as it's available in pdf and Romanian seems fairly comprehensible to English and Italian speakers (on technical matters, in print). Probably easy for you.

www.rft.forter.ro/17_b...leriei.pdf

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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:09 am Post subject: Re: Bucharest. Muzeul Militar National
Indeed I used www.worldwar2.ro to get additional info on some artillery pieces in the Museum Massimo

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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:22 am Post subject: Re: Bucharest. Muzeul Militar National
47 mm Schneider. This is a pretty exotic piece: Massimo

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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:25 am Post subject: Re: Bucharest. Muzeul Militar National
57 mm Hotchkiss 1891-1916. Seems like during WW I the Rumanian Army tried to put together as much artillery as possible, many guns were removed from fortifications and put on top of any kind of chassis was at hand. This is one of those: Massimo Last edited by Massimo_Foti on Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:07 pm; edited 1 time in total

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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:26 am Post subject: Re: Bucharest. Muzeul Militar National
57 mm Hotchkiss 1891-1916 Negrei. Same as above, just different mounting (Negrei design): Massimo

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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:30 am Post subject: Re: Bucharest. Muzeul Militar National
Talking about mitrailleuse and similar weapons from that period (1860-1880), I took some pictures at Solothurn Museum (Switzerland) some weeks ago, among other things there were two funky looking, multi-barrel weapons of the same age. I'll post pictures once they will be ready (my backlog is getting bigger and bigger...) Massimo

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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 7:29 am Post subject: Re: Bucharest. Muzeul Militar National
75 mm 1897/17 anti-aircraft The famous french 75 mm mod 1987 on an anti-aircraft mount. Used both in WW I and WWW II: Massimo

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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 7:31 am Post subject: Re: Bucharest. Muzeul Militar National
75 mm 1936 Vickers anti-aircraft Massimo

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Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:56 am Post subject: Re: Bucharest. Muzeul Militar National
75 mm Resita below: I keep adding more shots to my Flickr space, but I am not done yet. You can check it here: www.flickr.com/photos/...992545782/ I try to sort the guns by caliber Massimo

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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:11 am Post subject: Re: Bucharest. Muzeul Militar National
- Massimo_Foti In Morges there is mitrailleuse, just a different model, maybe a Reffye: www.flickr.com/photos/...603782891/ I am starting a dedicated thread on this topic: www.com-central.net/in...mp;t=13306 Massimo

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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:45 am Post subject: Re: Bucharest. Muzeul Militar National
76.2 mm Obuhov 1912: No need to say I new nothing about it before visiting the Museum Massimo

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Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 7:17 am Post subject: Re: Bucharest. Muzeul Militar National
100 mm Skoda M 1934 Massimo

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Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:17 am Post subject: Re: Bucharest. Muzeul Militar National
105 mm M 1940/43 Skoda Massimo

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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 7:11 am Post subject: Re: Bucharest. Muzeul Militar National
105 mm Schneider M 1936 Massimo

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