Friday, May 2, 2008

New Gun to Shoot Eighty Miles.

1920

LONDON, England. — A gun is being built at the Vickers Works at Sheffield 80 feet long that will hurl an 8-inch shell between seventy and eighty miles. Announcement to this effect has been made by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 3.

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