Is this the same "Vickers letter" (not report) that Antonio kept mentioning ?
IF so, does it mention interlocks ?
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Totally incorrect statement (extensive redactionWJJ)Wadinga wrote: "Recently I have accessed the Vickers report confirming that only one practice main armament firing took place during which each gun fired six rounds..."
And now the other "true contributor" is caught red-handed (Redaction made WJJ) admitting withholding information in order to distort the evidence available. It would appear he revealed just a part of the information to some other forum member, specifically to mislead him, whilst withholding the full knowledge.(I suspect from whom, btw, a forum member who received this small part from me, promising not to diffuse the info...)
Not true FROM THE READILY AVAILABLE FILES AND GUN MANUALS ! ( i.e. everything except A & A's mysterious letter. )paul.mercer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 9:49 am
....... What is apparent that as both KGV and later DoY had problems with their guns in battle is that the quad turrets and their operating systems were never really cured. ......
Hi Paul, I have done here (viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8523&start=15#p82929) and previously here (viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6834&p=76840&hilit=barben#p76840) providing a lot of new info, albeit not trusted by every single member, apparently...Paul Mercer wrote: "Could you remind us what that report said?"
Paul Mercer wrote: "I realise that you perhaps feel duty bound not to reveal all the contents of the report, but does it not seem strange that after all this time it still remains confidential... "
(Lengthy Redaction WJJ)
A gift for you, as you kindly requested some more info from Vickers report:As a disclaimer, I have always said that Mr.Wilkinson cannot be considered impartial about the design of "his" turrets and he speaks in name of his firm (a very interested party), therefore I think we have to take Tovey, Leach and McMullen reports together with Mr.Wilkinson (+Mr.Barben) report and to conclude that the truth is possibly half way...Mr.Wilkinson conclusions re. the early May gunnery trials: "Trials were satisfactory, some minor faults were invariably found on such a mass of machinery, and even in times of peace eliminated"
I find interesting the last sentence, raising doubts about the fact that these mountings could ever been made perfect.
Bye, Alberto
Alberto Virtuani wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 8:38 pm Hello everybody,
many thanks to Mr.Dunmunro for publishing something that he received confidentially from me.
It was my material and my decision, not Mr.Dunmunro's ones. He was in no way in an impossible situation: he was simply bound to silence. The "interested parties" could have asked me a copy, as Mr.Dunmunro did at that time, when I made the mistake to send it to him.Dunmunro wrote: "You placed me in an impossible situation. If you had distributed these excerpts to all interested parties, this could have been avoided."