File:FWDLorryTowing6inchHowitzerWWI.jpg

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3-ton "FWD" lorry built by the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, Wisconsin, towing a British army 6 inch 30 cwt howitzer along an improvised "corduroy" track, near Mametz.


Bracketed steel tyres have been clamped onto the gun carriage's wooden wheels.
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This photograph Q 833 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
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Ernest Brooks  (1878–1958)  wikidata:Q5392825
 
Ernest Brooks
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E. "Baby" Brooks
Description British photographer
Date of birth/death 23 February 1878 Edit this at Wikidata 1958 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Faringdon Hendon
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current09:57, 2 December 2011Thumbnail for version as of 09:57, 2 December 2011800 × 587 (65 KB)Rcbutcher (talk | contribs)replaced with new higher-resolution version from IWM
09:08, 26 September 2007Thumbnail for version as of 09:08, 26 September 2007800 × 310 (108 KB)Rcbutcher (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=3-ton "FWD" lorry built by the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, Wisconsin, towing a British army 6 inch howitzer, World War I. |Source="The Times History of the War" Volume X, page 282. |Date=1916-1918 |Author=British Governme

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