Ammunition wagon for 120mm Krupp howitzers

The field howitzers batteries armed with 120mm not quick-firing Krupp howitzers were equipped with an ammunition wagon of German pattern. It was composed by the limber and the caisson, and was drawn by a team of six horses. The limber looked like the limber of the field artillery gun. It carried 16 rounds placed horizontally, and was divided into two superposed rows, each containing eight rounds. The shrapnel were placed into the nests of the upper row, and the shells into the nests of the lower row. Since the cast iron shells were shorter than the steel ones, a bottom was put behind them.

The caisson was composed by an axle with two wheels, a chest, two support beams, two chest girders, a base sheet, a brake mechanism, and miscellaneous hardware. The brake mechanism was the old Krupp brake with brake traverse bar, iron brake pads and threaded spindle. The chest was divided into two compartments, whose inner arrangement was like that of the gun limber.

The caisson carried :

- 12 common shells, 8 in the shelves of the lower row of the back section, and 4 in the shelves of the lower row of the front section;

- 20 shrapnel with fuzes, in the remaining shelves;

- 32 cartidges with a charges of 0.9 + 0.6 kg, in pairs upon the shelves of the projectiles;

- 40 primers, in 2 sheet boxes put into the ignition chests;

- 15 percussion fuzes for heavy projectiles, in 3 sheet boxes put into the ignition chests;

- 24 screw bolts for time and percussion fuzes, in 4 sheet boxes put into the ignition chests;

- 8 cartridge bags, in the cartridge shelves;

- 2 ignition chests, in the right equipment case;

- 1 jack for projectiles and 1 screwdriver, in the left equipment case;

- 4 padlocks.

limber	empty :	585 kg
	ammunition :	345 kg
	tools :	55 kg
	loaded :	985 kg
caisson	empty with tools :	880 kg
	ammunition :	690 kg
	loaded :	1570 kg
wagon	empty with tools :	1520 kg
	ammunition :	1035 kg
	loaded :	2555 kg
rounds	on the limber :	16
	on the caisson :	32