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| Subject: | Re: New Gun Drawings - Woo Hoo! |  |
| Date: | Aug 28, 2003 |
| From: | Kurt Laughlin | |
"Paul Roberts" wrote
> How much did they want for the copies of the drawings?
Heh-heh. . . Nothing. For 20-odd D-sized drawings run through a full-size
copier. What does Kinko's charge for that - about $5 per page? When asked
up front how much copies would run, they merely suggested a donation to the
museum fund, so I gave them $50.
> How hard were they to get?
Very easy. I just went to the museum and told the asst curator what I
wanted and he took me to the drawings and I rooted through and found what I
wanted.
They really didn't have all that much of interest to me. They had , I
think, 36 file drawers of stuff, sorted by caliber. Most was 1875 - 1960
era. Quite a few naval guns, as they made them as well. The other thing
was that WVA was only responsible for the gun proper, so there were very few
(like six) drawings of things other than gun assemblies (tube + breech) or
ballistic drawings. I guess you'd have to go to Rock Island for carriages
and recoil mechanisms, and Aberdeen for ammunition and small arms. (APG
holds the stuff from the now-closed Picatinny Arsenal.) The fella called
around and they supposedly have manufacturing and delivery records for
everything they ever made, so I was thinking I might check how many 280mm
guns or Davy Crocketts were actually built.
KL |
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