| Notes:
1) The quadruple mountings were developed
by St. Chamond and do not appear to have been very successful, with the
loading system in particular being prone to defects.
2) The quad mounts were equipped with RPC
from Sautter-Harlé.
3) The DP mountings had the dual guns in
a single sleeve while the SP mountings had separate sleeves.
4) The SP mountings were base-ring types
with pusher hoists which delivered two rounds at a time into drums pivoting
on the trunnion axis. Springs pushed the projectiles onto upper and
lower loading trays from where they were power rammed into the gun breeches.
Electric power was used for training and elevation. The distance
between gun axes was 51.2 in (130 cm).
5) The DP mountings had a double hoist
for each gun, one for AA rounds and one for surface rounds. Rounds
were passed by hand to the hoists which came up by the outer cradle trunnions
of each pair and the rounds were passed to the loading tray by a combination
of hydraulically powered tilting and rotating trays and slide tracks.
Rammers were pneumatic with the breech closing automatically after ramming.
Firing automatically ejected the cartridge case onto the loading tray after
which it was manually passed onto a conveyor. The distance between
gun axes was 21.7 in (55 cm) between pairs and 96.5 in (245 cm) between
the inner guns. There was a 0.8 in (2 cm) bulkhead extending about
65% of the turret length between the gun pairs. Training and elevation
were both powered by 10 hp motors with Sautter-Harlé RPC. |
