ORDNANCE

Design, Manufacturing, Testing

Military Manual Photocopies available from Military/Info

• AMCP 706-115  Engineering Design Handbook. Environmental Series. Part One. Basic Environmental Concepts (July 1974); 226 pages, 56 illus.  Price 23.00  {Item No.3995}[Army Materiel Command Publication]
• AMCP 706-134  Engineering Design Handbook. Maintainability Guide for Design (July 1970); 450 pages, illus. Price 45.00 Price 45.00 {Item No.3996}[Army Materiel Command Publication]
• AMCP 706-136  Engineering Design Handbook. Servomechanisms. Section 1, Theory (April 1965); 238 pages, 50+illus. Price 24.00  {Item No.3997} [Army Materiel Command Publication]
• AMCP 706-138  Engineeering Design Handbook. Servomechanisms. Section 3, Amplification (April 1965); 221 pages, 200+illus.  Price 22.00  {Item No.3999}[Army Materiel Command Publication]
• AMCP 706-137  Engineering Design Handbook. Servomechanisms. Section 2, Measurement and Signal Converter (April 1965); 128 pages, 50+illus.  Price 12.00  {Item No.3998} [Army Materiel Command Publication]
• AMCP 706-139  Research and Development of Material. Engineering Design Handbook. Servomechanisms. Section 4, Power Elements and System Design (August 1963); 206 pages, many illus.  Price 20.00  {Item No.4000}[Army Materiel Command Publication]
• AMCP 706-140  Research and Development of Material. Engineering Design Handbook. Trajectories, Differential Effects, and Data for Projectiles (August 1963); 49 pages, 7 illus.  Price 5.00  {Item No.4001}[Army Materiel Command Publication]
• AMCP 706-238  Engineering Design Handbook. Recoilless Rifle Weapon Systems (January 1976); 542 pages, 100+illus. Price 55.00 {Item No.4005} [Army Materiel Command Publication] [Includes the history of U.S.Recoilless Rifle Design]
• AMCP 706-247  Research and Development of Materiel. Engineering Design Handbook. Ammunition Series. Section 4, Design of Projection (July 1964); 190 pages, 73 illus.  Price 20.00  {Item No.4007} [Army Materiel Command Publication] 
• AMCP 706-250  Research and Development of Materiel. Engineering Design Handbook. Guns Series. Guns - General (August 1964); 75 pages, illus.  Price 8.00 {Item No.7694}[Army Materiel Command Publication]
• AMCP 706-251  Engineering Design Handbook. Gun Series. Muzzle Devices (May 1968); 143 pages, 46 illus.  Price 14.00 {Item No.4008}[Army Materiel Command Publication]
• AMCP 706-252  Research and Development of Materiel. Engineering Design Handbook. Guns Series. Gun Tubes (February 1964); 100 pages, 64 illus.  Price 10.00  {Item No.4009}[Army Materiel Command Publication]
• AMCP 706-253  Engineering Design Handbook. Breech Mechanism Design (February 1979); 242 pages, 91 illus. Price 24.00 {Item No.4010}[Army Materiel Command Publication]
• AMCP 706-260  Engineering Design Handbook. Guns Series. Automatic Weapons (February 1970); 348 pages, 84 illus. Price 35.00  {Item No.4011}[Army Materiel Command Publication]
• AMCP 706-342  Research and Development of Material. Engineering Design Handbook. Carriages and Mounts Series Recoil Systems (September 1963); 81 pages, 49 illus.  Price 8.00  {Item No.4018} [Army Materiel Command Publication]
• AMCP 706-345  Engineering Design Handbook. Carriages and Mounts Series. Equilibrators (December 1970); 66 pages, 46 illus.  Price 7.00  {Item No.4019} [Army Materiel Command Publication]
• DARCOM-P 706-101 Engineering Design Handbook. Army Weapon Systems Analysis, Part One (November 1977); 458 pages, 101 illus  Price 46.00  {Item No.7699}[This document supplies many of formulas for the evaluation of weapons systems used during the Cold War period (1970-1990 AD), it also can possibly useful for detailed construction of wargame scenarios] [Many complex design and logistical formulas]
• TM 1-1050  Fundamentals of Mechcanical Drawing (24 March 1943); 90 pages, 104 illus. Price 10.00 {Item No.299} [Army Air Corps]
• Ordnance Department. Gage Design Manual for Ordnance Materiel (1 August 1945); 148 pages, many illus. Price 15.00 {Item No.2858} [Original not in prefect shape]
• Ordnance Dept.Doc.No.2035 Theory and Design of Recoil Systems and Gun Carriages (September 1921); 1011 pages, 100+illus. Price 100.00 {Item No.4087} [Includes: Chapter I. Introduction and Elements - Types of Cannon and Carriages - Classification of Carriages and Recoil Systems. Chapter II. Dynamics of Interior Ballistic as Affecting Recoil Design - The Parabolic Trajectory. Chapter III. External Reaction on Carriage during Recoil - Stability - Jump. Chapter IV. Internal Reactions throughout a Gun Carriage during Recoil and Counter Recoil. Chapter V. Hydraulic Principles as Applied to Various Systems of Recoil and Counter Recoil - General Theories of Orifices and Flow of Oil. Chatper VI. The Dynamics of Recoil and Counter Recoil - Differential Equations of Resistance, Braking, ect. and Velocity - General Formulas for Recoil and Counter Recoil. Chapter VII. Classification of Recoil Systems - Derivation of General Formulas for Design and Computation - General Limitations, ect.. Chapter VIII. Hydro-pneumatic Recoil Systems. Chapter IX. Hydro-pneumatic Recoil Systems (Continued). Chapter X. Railway Gun Carriages. Chapter XI. Gun Lift Carriages. Chapter XII. Double Recoil Systems. Chapter XIII. Miscellaneous Problems - Discussions of Various Types of Carriages. General Design Procedure][This is a complex Engineering textbook]
• Ordnance Dept.Doc.No.2050 Notes on the Selection and Use of Metals in Ordnance Design (1924); 57 pages, illus. Price 6.00 {Item No.2178}
• Ordnance Dept.Doc.No.2567 Drafting Room Regulations of the Ordnance Department United States Army (Rev.1 January1937); 59 pages, 7 plates of illus. Price 6.00 {Item No.3145}
• Ordnance Technical Notes No.2  Investigation of Foreign Gun Steels by Dr.F.C.Langenberg and A.C.Badger (1924); 185 pages, 153 illus.  Price 20.00 {Item No.193} [Guns studied: German 77mm Field gun model 1916, German 77mm Field Gun Model 1896, German 105mm Light Field Howitzer Model 98/09, German 150mm Heavy Field Howitzer Model 1912, German 150mm Field Gun, British 8 inch Howitzer Mark VI, French 155mm Field Gun Model 1917 (Filloux)] [Published by Office of Chief Ordnance U.S.Army]
• Ordnance Technical Notes No.3  Tests of Stretching of Steel Cylinder by Internal Pressure. by Dr.P.W.Bridgman (1924); 15 pages, plus 6 plates of illus.  Price 5.00 {Item No.194} [Published by Office of Chief Ordnance U.S.Army]
• Ordnance Technical Notes No.4  Tensile Tests of Specimens from an Autofretted Steel Cylinder by the Metallurgical Laboratories Watertown Arsenal (1924); 11 pages, plus 26 pages of illus. plates   Price 6.00 {Item No.189} [Published by Office of Chief Ordnance U.S.Army]
• Ordnance Technical Notes No.7  Manufacture of 3" Anti-Aircraft Guns, Model of 1925 by Auto-Frettage Method  by the Metallurgical Laboratories Watertown Arsenal (1925); 30 pages, plus 9 pages of illus. plates  Price 7.00 {Item No.190} [Published by Office of Chief Ordnance U.S.Army]
• Ordnance Technical Notes No.8  Description and Instructions for the Use of the Solenoid Chronograph. by R.H.Kent (1927); 90 pages, 43 illus.  Price 12.00 {Item No.7504} [Published by Office of Chief Ordnance U.S.Army]
• Ordnance Department Document No.10  Time Pressure Records by a Piezo-Electric Method by R.H.Kent (1927); 24 pages, 18 illus.  Price 6.00 {Item No.199}
• Artillery Circular A (12 February 1892). The Resistance of Guns to Tangential Rupture. Adjutant General’s Office (1892); 72 pages, illus. Price 7.00 {Item No.3831} [Translated from Russian, by Col.Pashkievitsch, Professor at the Michael Artillery Academy, St. Petersburg]
• McLean, Dr.James Henry; Dr.J.H.Mclean’s Peace Makers; Baker & Godwin, New York (1880); 200 pages, many illus. Price 20.00 {Item No.2186} [An example of how to make a beautiful ordnance PR book which is filled with of totally fictitious weapons.]
• Monthaye, E. Krupp and De Bange. (Translated by O.E.Michaelis). New York: Thomas Prosser & Son (1888); 218 pages, 8 plates of illus. Price 21.00 {Item No.3983} [A comparison study between German and French Artillery design, production, and preformance]
• Ruggles, Lt.Colonel Colden L'H., Ordnance U.S.Army. Stresses in Wire-Wrapped Guns and in Gun Carriages. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1916); 259 pages, 98 illus. Price 26.00 {Item No.4744}

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