SPLENDID TANK KILLER
BRITISH 17-POUNDER GUN. QUICK PRODUCTION AND FIRE PERFORMANCE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.22 a.m.) RUGBY, October 10. The British 17-pounder anti-tank gun has proved a complete answer to the German Mark 6 Tiger tank, and can be trusted to knock out the most heavily armoured enemy tanks up to 1,000 yards range. Reports speak of the gun’s astonishing accuracy, and refer to it as a magnificent tank killer. Ordinarily it would take two years to produce a gun from the time the designs were finished. The first 17-pounder produced in five months, and they have since been pouring from the factories in continuously increasing numbers. There are enough in service to meet all present requirements. The gun measures just over 74 feet from muzzle to end of the trail. It has a semi-auto-matic breech action, which makes it possible to maintain a very high rate of fire. The trail is split, giving a wide traverse. It fires fixed ammunition, with shell and cartridge fitted together, like a rifle cartridge and bullet.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 October 1943, Page 4
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