Assyrian army

Assyrian army

Saturday 10 March 2018

For Ross

Re a discussion here.

In the Great War in England in 1897 there is a little action by some some bicycle troops who used a bicycle mounted machine gun.  Actually it's really a quadricycle mounted machine gun.

This is the picture:






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  1. I like it!

    Since I was a kid, I've had an antique book on The War in South Africa, written by a correspondent right after the war, in ummh 1900 (oops). Amongst the lithographs was one of "The automobile at war" based on this photo:
    www.landships.info/landships/softskin_articles/images/armed_bikes_1.jpg

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    1. A much clearer picture - sure I've seen that one before myself. It's going on my 'to do' list.

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  2. In some my wargames I have used bicycle troops, including a bicycle drawn machine gun unit. It would be fun to try to form a unit of quadricycle machine guns.

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  3. https://bsamuseum.wordpress.com/ww1-military-bicycles-in-world-war-one-wwi/
    is a really interesting link

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    1. Couple of useful ideas there though a bit later than 1897. The use of bicycles certainly seemed to be very popular back then.

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