Zimi Model

[zenrat]

Why did the Royal Navy call them Chicago Piano?  Why not Elswick, or Southsea?

[Nick]

Why did the Royal Navy call them Chicago Piano?  Why not Elswick, or Southsea?

Chicago, home of the Valentine Day Massacre. Lots of machine gun fire?
Just my guess.

[Old Wombat]

Why did the Royal Navy call them Chicago Piano?  Why not Elswick, or Southsea?

8 (big) machine-guns banging out lots of rounds at once = very gangster, & the Thompson submachine gun was called the "Chicago typewriter", so the logical extension was "Chicago (something)" & "piano" sounded right (as, even in the 1930s, "organ", which the weapon looked like, could be misinterpreted).

[Mossie]

Yeah, the image of the American gangster had very much spread across the pond, even into Europe. There was that famous picture of Churchill with the Tommy gun, the German's countered it by labelling him a gangster.

[NARSES2]

Dad served on the crew of a 2pdr Pom Pom in both the Med and the Pacific. Heaved ammo in the Med, pulled the trigger in the Pacific after a gunnery course in S Africa waiting the BPF to "round the Cape"

[Weaver]

If ideas had to be made into reality then i wouldn't use the pom pom gun at all if 40mm was the guns that had to be used ,,i'd just go with Bofors guns .. would take up less space since the guns are fed from the top at the back of the gun ,,not the sides and it wouldn't surprise me if they also had a higher rate of fire annnnnnd ,,a much better selection of ammo for the guns too .

Debateable, at least in regard to space. The quad pom-pom is two-over-two, which is superficially more compact that the quad Bofors 4-in-line layout. The quad pom-pom had about the same swept volume as the twin Bofors. Both of them need considerable extra space around them for loaders to operate in: even the top-loading Bofors needed guys to reach over it from the sides in order to put fresh clips in. The quad pom-pom also had more rounds in it's feed trays, so the reloading cadence could afford temporary slip ups and slow downs too.

Ballistically, the Bofors was the MUCH better gun, which is why it was adopted.

[Wardukw]

If ideas had to be made into reality then i wouldn't use the pom pom gun at all if 40mm was the guns that had to be used ,,i'd just go with Bofors guns .. would take up less space since the guns are fed from the top at the back of the gun ,,not the sides and it wouldn't surprise me if they also had a higher rate of fire annnnnnd ,,a much better selection of ammo for the guns too .

Debateable, at least in regard to space. The quad pom-pom is two-over-two, which is superficially more compact that the quad Bofors 4-in-line layout. The quad pom-pom had about the same swept volume as the twin Bofors. Both of them need considerable extra space around them for loaders to operate in: even the top-loading Bofors needed guys to reach over it from the sides in order to put fresh clips in. The quad pom-pom also had more rounds in it's feed trays, so the reloading cadence could afford temporary slip ups and slow downs too.

Ballistically, the Bofors was the MUCH better gun, which is why it was adopted.

Well my good Sir we're gonna find out now aint we as i've put the Zimi Model quad Bofors on Order with a bloke i know here ,,here's getting some Zimi Model kits in including the ZSU 24-4 m2/m4 which also has me very interested   

[Weaver]

Well my good Sir we're gonna find out now aint we as i've put the Zimi Model quad Bofors on Order with a bloke i know here ,,here's getting some Zimi Model kits in including the ZSU 24-4 m2/m4 which also has me very interested   

Nice one - going to be interesting to see what you do with it.

[Wardukw]

Well my good Sir we're gonna find out now aint we as i've put the Zimi Model quad Bofors on Order with a bloke i know here ,,here's getting some Zimi Model kits in including the ZSU 24-4 m2/m4 which also has me very interested   

Nice one - going to be interesting to see what you do with it.

This might involve a bloody big truck which used to carry a big pile of crap missile   

[Mossie]

Shilka.  Wouldn't want to be on the receiving end though.

Took three attempts to stop predictive text changing it to Sheila. It must be a warning, stay away from Sheila.

[jcf]

This photo is a good illustration of the size of the octuple mount pom-pom.

[zenrat]

This photo is a good illustration of the size of the octuple mount pom-pom.

We're gonna need a bigger truck...