It offered 360-degree traverse and about 70-degree elevation, allowing them to theoretically be used as antiaircraft-guns. The guns used a column mount designed for naval use. The White Army captured a total of 50 – 60 guns in the Civil War of 1918. Ahlberg & Co O during World War 1 for the Russian army, and when the Finnish civil war ended about half of these were still unfinished and thus remained in Finland. ( June 2008)Ībout 60 were built by Finnish company Ab H. The Belgian Army used the gun on a high-angle field carriage mounting. from 1900) were labelled Vickers, Sons and Maxim (VSM) as Vickers had bought out Maxim-Nordenfelt in 1897 but they are the same gun. Įarly versions were sold under the Maxim-Nordenfelt label, whereas versions in British service (i.e.
Its longer range necessitated exploding projectiles to judge range, which in turn dictated a shell weight of at least 400 grams (0.88 lb), as that was the lightest exploding shell allowed under the Saint Petersburg Declaration of 1868 and reaffirmed in the Hague Convention of 1899. Hiram Maxim originally designed the Pom-Pom in the late 1880s as an enlarged version of the Maxim machine gun.
It was used by several countries initially as an infantry gun and later as a light anti-aircraft gun. The QF 1 pounder, universally known as the pom-pom due to the sound of its discharge, was a 37 mm British autocannon, the first of its type in the world. Mk II gun dated 1903, on anti-aircraft mounting, at the Imperial War Museum, London.
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