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Military Manual Photocopies available from Military/Info

• 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}
• 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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