H. Jones' Book - 1917 Erfurt Artillery ?

Pete Ebbink · 10-08-2002, 05:21 PM

Hello All,

Sort of related (but not...) to this thread are the following questions I have :

1. What happened at Erfurt after 1914 in their artillery section to have caused no more artillerys to have been made ?

I have read that Erfurt just focused on other production lines. But I also recall reading (in the old Jones or Datig books) that there was some theory that the Erfurt artillery tooling was transferred to DWM in late 1914, which was also evident in the low 1914 DWM artillery production numbers (going off memory, I think only ~ 25,000 or so guns in 1914 by DWM...).

What is the current thinking here about why Erfurt artillerys seemingly stopped after 1914 ?

2. Why did Erfurt continue to mill-out that front receiver groove on all their P-08's (from 1914 to 1918) when not intending to make any more artillerys ? Seems like this extra machining step would just add production costs/time with no real benefit...

I know my questions are just asking for speculation...but would like to hear others' thoughts and opinions...

Regards,

Pete... <img src="graemlins/yltype.gif" border="0" alt="[typing]" />

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10-08-2002, 05:21 PM	#17
Pete Ebbink User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The USA Posts: 5,919 Thanks: 0 Thanked 7 Times in 5 Posts	Hello All, Sort of related (but not...) to this thread are the following questions I have : 1. What happened at Erfurt after 1914 in their artillery section to have caused no more artillerys to have been made ? I have read that Erfurt just focused on other production lines. But I also recall reading (in the old Jones or Datig books) that there was some theory that the Erfurt artillery tooling was transferred to DWM in late 1914, which was also evident in the low 1914 DWM artillery production numbers (going off memory, I think only ~ 25,000 or so guns in 1914 by DWM...). What is the current thinking here about why Erfurt artillerys seemingly stopped after 1914 ? 2. Why did Erfurt continue to mill-out that front receiver groove on all their P-08's (from 1914 to 1918) when not intending to make any more artillerys ? Seems like this extra machining step would just add production costs/time with no real benefit... I know my questions are just asking for speculation...but would like to hear others' thoughts and opinions... Regards, Pete... <img src="graemlins/yltype.gif" border="0" alt="[typing]" />