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Starboard Gun's accuracy, parts replacement, and servicing requirements.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 176\1\  img221
Date  8th May 1942
  
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Ve/NP.1/CB.8.5.42.

Starboard Gun. contd.

Accuracy. - Very good.

100% group at 500 yds. - 28" dia. before; 18" dia. after.

Replacements due to breakage. - 4 Extractors.
2 Firing sears.
1 Front slide.

Servicing - Nil except for cleaning breech block and topping up air pressure every three days.

Refilling Recoil Mechanism after stripping to replace broken slide.

JE

Ve/NP.
  
  
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).


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