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Regarding the light plantation railway at Tanga for the transport of the mobile Koenigsberg gun, the German Factory
Arthur Koppel
was specialised for these types of rails and light locomotives in German East Africa. But of course I am not sure if for this gun a drive
system exists or if this platform was moved by muscle power. The complete weight of this construction must be at about 3 - 4 tonnes.
Shown are different types of drive system from Arthur Koppel.
Orinial Source: http://www.jernbanen.dk/forum2/images/u ... b7e544.jpg
Orinial Source: http://www.ssdw.de/AK/S34-u.jpg
Orinial Source: http://www.ssdw.de/AK/S89-u.jpg
The following advertisements are from:
Deutsches Kolonialblatt: Amtsblatt des Reichskolonialamt 1899
https://ia601409.us.archive.org/12/item ... logoog.pdf
Güterwagen-Drehgestelle: Y 25 – Decauville (Waggons from Arthur Koppel)
http://www.drehgestelle.de/6/y25_vorl.html
Plantagenwirtschaft in Deutsch-Ostafrika
http://kunstmuseum-hamburg.de/plantagen ... ostafrika/
Catalogue from ORENSTEIN & KOPPEL - ARTHUR KOPPEL AG
http://www.asoa.de/o+k-1913-reprint.htm
Only the
Governor Heinrich Schnee wrote in his book »Deutsch-Ostafrika im Weltkriege« in April 1917 on page 252:
“ . . . Kapitän z.S. Looff wies alle feindlichen Angriffe zurück. Ein am Ende des Krieks aufgestelltes, auf dem Gleise der
Kleinbahn der dortigen Pflanzung fahrbar gemachtes ,,Königsberg´´-Geschütz beschoß die feindlichen Lager bei Lindi. . .“
“. . . Captain Looff rejected all hostile attacks. At the end of the creek positioned Koenigsberg gun was made movable
on the rails of the light plantation railway and shelled the enemy camp at Lindi. . . “
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“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. . . . All History was a
palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary” – G. ORWELL 1984