2-pdr [4 cm/39 (1.575")] Mark VIII
Pictures
Updated 22 December 2013
2-pdr. Mark VII Quad Destroyer Mounting
The second crewman from the left is the
crank turner
Note the simple ring sights
Reloading an octuple 2-pdr on HMAS Shropshire
State Library of Victoria Image H98.105/3247
Gunsight on 2-pdr octuple mount
IWM Photograph TR 330
Quad 2-pdr mounts under construction at
the Dominion Engineering Works plant in Canada
National Film Board of Canada
Library and Archives Canada Photograph
3196183
2-pdr. Mark VII Quad Mounting
Sketch from B.R. 224/45
Loading a single 2-pdr ca. 1938
State Library of Victoria Image H98.105/3184
Single Mark VIII gun in Mark XV mounting
This mounting was adapted from the 20
mm Oerlikon Mark V mounting
The Mark XVI mounting was very similar
Greasing 2-pdr ammunition aboard HMS Kelvin
IWM Photograph A 2263
2-pdr HV Rounds
Sketch courtesy of Steve
Johnson's Cyberheritage Website
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Caption from IWM:
"British No 243 Mark IIN fuze (Sectioned),
Second World War period (manufactured 1940?). The No 243 percussion
(direct action) fuze was introduced in 1938. It was of the hammer
and shear wire type in aluminium alloy for use in Naval 2-pounder anti-aircraft
guns. The No 243 ran to three 'Marks' and was declared obsolete in
1943 but re-instated in 1946. It was finally declared obsolete in
1957."
IWM photograph MUN 2753
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Images at The
Vickers Photographic Archive
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