Handbook for Light Artillery

by A. B. Dyer

SPARE PARTS—CARRIAGE.

• 1 bow-spring brake
• 2 singletrees
• 1 doubletree
• 1 neck-yoke
• 4 pole-pads
• 12 linch-pins
• 8 linch-washers
• 4 ammunition-chest bolts and nuts
• 2 turnbuckles for ammunition-chests
• 2 breech-strap eye-washers
• 2 nuts for assembling-bolts for lazy-tongs
• 2 springs for pole-prop at end of pole
• 4 lid-props
• 4 lid-prop plate pivots
• 1 pintle-key and chain

SPARE PARTS—HARNESS.

• 6 breast-straps
• 6 bridles and bits, artillery, N. P
• 4 collars steel
• 9 girths, hair, artillery, N. P
• 6 halters, artillery, N. P
• 50 halter-straps
• 4 martingales
• 2 neck-yoke pads
• 10 surcingles
• 2 traces, lead, artillery, N. P
• 2 traces, wheel, artillery, N. P

STEEL COLLAR.

• 2 trace-plates
• 4 draft-springs
• 4 pad-hooks
• 2 pad bolts and nuts
• 2 nuts for pad-bolts
• 2 buckle-latches
• 6 buckle-springs
• 6 bolts and nuts for top connection
• 4 nuts for top-connection bolts
• 6 bolts and nuts for bottom of collar
• 4 nuts for bottom bolts
• 6 bolts and nuts for extension
• 4 nuts for extension-bolts
• 6 bolts and nuts for trace-plate
• 4 nuts for trace-plate bolts
• 12 back-straps
• 8 back-strap connections
• 6 collar-pads, canvas

TOOLS AND IMPLEMENTS.

• 3 gunners' gimlets
• 3 vent-punches
• 3 priming-wires
• 2 fuze-wrenches
• 4 fuze-punches
• 24 fuze-punch pins
• 1 obturator spindle and wrench
• 4 whips, artillery
• 2 pickaxe-handles
• 2 axe-helves
• 4 short rammers and sponges, combined
• 1 sponge and rammer, jointed
• 2 sponge-heads and sponges for short rammers and sponges, combined
• 1 rammer-head for short rammers and sponges, combined
• 2 sponge-heads and sponges for jointed sponge and rammer
• 1 rammer-head for jointed sponge and rammer

PRICE-LIST OF ARTILLERY-HARNESS.