What is this gun?

[Alanmccoubrey]

But if it is aleFH16 why is there a cylinder above the barrel ?

pls read the earlier posts, ther Erla came with just that

I know that, I was just pointing out to schwarzermai why it couldn't be the leFH16, perhaps you should read his post too.

[peeved]

Erla pics from http://www.ebay.de/itm/301621320664?_tr ... EBIDX%3AIT

Markus

[schwarzermai]

Hello

It is a pity that you can not recognize the label on the carriage - maybe all pre-1933 guns are labeled?

for examples:

you can see "Laf. 2" here
http://forum.axishistory.com/download/f ... &mode=view

# 5 here
http://forum.axishistory.com/download/f ... ?id=228098

uwe

[Manuferey]

A remaining Erla in France today:
http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.net/pa ... 2879_1.htm

Erlabplumier.jpg

Erlabplumier2.jpg

(photos Jean-Christophe Foray)
With message here:
http://canonspgmww1guns.canalblog.com/a ... 85282.html

Note that the first gun shown in the above message is a 7.5 cm leFK18 and not a 7.5 cm FK38.


Emmanuel

[nuyt]

Fantastic, another mystery solved!

[Sturm78]

It is incredible that a specimen of this rare howitzer has survived in such good conditions!!
The tube is marked with the year 1917. This is strange ... I guess these howitzers would be made at the beginning of the 1930s, right?

Sturm78

[Manuferey]

The tube is marked with the year 1917. This is strange ... I guess these howitzers would be made at the beginning of the 1930s, right?
Sturm78

The carriage was made in the early 30's but it reused a leFH16 barrel from WW1.

Emmanuel

[nuyt]

The tube is marked with the year 1917. This is strange ... I guess these howitzers would be made at the beginning of the 1930s, right?
Sturm78

The carriage was made in the early 30's but it reused a leFH16 barrel from WW1.

Emmanuel

They were built in 1924-25 (see p 3) with barrels of the leFH16 Krupp to be more precise

[schwarzermai]

Hello @ all

exciting thread!! Thanks to all!!

no info about "Erla" in Waffen-Arsenal # 125 - so i think this variant was built in small numbers only

uwe

[peeved]

The tube is marked with the year 1917. This is strange ... I guess these howitzers would be made at the beginning of the 1930s, right?
Sturm78

The carriage was made in the early 30's but it reused a leFH16 barrel from WW1.

Emmanuel

They were built in 1924-25 (see p 3) with barrels of the leFH16 Krupp to be more precise

The conversion was designed in 1924-25 according to p.3 but that excerpt seems not to deal with Erla manufacture to be even more precise .

Markus

[Manuferey]

Hello @ all
exciting thread!! Thanks to all!!
no info about "Erla" in Waffen-Arsenal # 125 - so i think this variant was built in small numbers only
uwe

This is one of the things I like about this forum: going where no historian has been before !

Emmanuel

[nuyt]

The tube is marked with the year 1917. This is strange ... I guess these howitzers would be made at the beginning of the 1930s, right?
Sturm78

The carriage was made in the early 30's but it reused a leFH16 barrel from WW1.

Emmanuel

They were built in 1924-25 (see p 3) with barrels of the leFH16 Krupp to be more precise

The conversion was designed in 1924-25 according to p.3 but that excerpt seems not to deal with Erla manufacture to be even more precise .

Markus

Correct, then I'd still date manufacture of this relatively small series in the second half of the 20s since this was a typical "replacement job", the only thing the Germans were allowed to do with their artillery while Versailles was still in vigor.

[schwarzermai]

Hello

one more erla (source ebay) - in the back on the right side



Uwe

[schwarzermai]

Hello

one more ERLA 10,5 cm F.H. 16

uwe

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

An image from Ebay:

Sturm78