Åkers Styckebruk

[MKlein]

Åkers Styckebruk first cannon that could be loaded from the back???
Just wondering if this is true or not, they also made vodka

Read more:  http://pondpond.blogspot.com/2009/07/shot-in-skottvang-was-forceful.html#ixzz2OStW1SM6


 





http://www.nortfort.ru/vaxholm/foto_guns10_e.html
 

[Cannon Cocker]

No idea if it was the first to be loaded from the back, although if it were, you would think it would be more well known.  I'm more interested in how it worked.  They didn't use a giant screwdriver to get the breech plug out did they?  And the breech plug had to be long and deep enough to go past the port on the side to seal it up right?  That's a big heavy screw to hang on that wimpy hinge. 

Nice looking guns that look to be in great shape, and an interesting place.  I wish I could visit.  Thanks for posting.

[steelcharge]

No idea if it was the first to be loaded from the back...

Nice looking guns that look to be in great shape...

Probably the first official breechloading gun for the swedish army/navy, but not the first breechloader in the whole world since breechloaders or "cannons that can be loaded from the back" we're made since the 1400s.

Because the swedes haven't really fought any wars after 1814, there's never been a serious need to recycle old weapons. That's why there seems to be plenty of antique weapons, cannons including, in great condition in Sweden.

EDIT: The gun is a 23cm M/1854 "Slätborrad Bombkanon", meaning it's a 7" smoothbore shell-gun. There were heavy and light models, but I don't know which is pictured in the photos here. I don't know how the breech works either, but they seem to have fired an odd, a bit oval shaped shell.

[GGaskill]

I am guessing this works a lot like the Krupp guns that Seacoast has made/is making.  A sliding breechblock through the side hole and the shell and charge through the rear hole.

[Cannon Cocker]

I am guessing this works a lot like the Krupp guns that Seacoast has made/is making.  A sliding breechblock through the side hole and the shell and charge through the rear hole.

Why even have a door on the back then.  No door on a Krupp, Broadwell, Hotchkiss, etc.  Can see holes on both sides of the gun which confirms your idea though. 

[GGaskill]

Why even have a door on the back then.

No idea unless it would somehow be weather related.  The hinge doesn't look all that substantial to believe anything really heavy was hung from it although judging from the picture below, maybe that is some kind of loading mechanism.

[MKlein]

I agree with steelcharge, after further reading it was the first in Sweden.
I think the carriage design is pretty advanced for 1850's without 3d modeling software.
It is a slot on the back and it looks like a lage piece slides all the way accross and locks with the hinged door in the back. Interesting
Here is a smaller version.







 

 

[Cannon Cocker]

I agree with steelcharge, after further reading it was the first in Sweden.
I think the carriage design is pretty advanced for 1850's without 3d modeling software.

That carriage is pretty wild.  I think it was the first IKEA product too.