687 25 pounder Ammunition Limber (1957-70)

So now we have the five variations of the 687 Trailer for 25-pdr Gun And a real one photographed at the Royal Artillery Museum Woolwich England on April 25, 2012. The manufacturer's name M-C.C.& W.Co Ltd is : Metro Cammell Carriage and Wagons Co Ltd. In May 1989, the railway business was sold to GEC Alsthom (now Alstom) Group who closed the compagny in 2005. Photos by courtesy of several members of this forum whom I thank for them.

Thank you Jacques for providing us with the images of all the variations for the 687 Ammunition Trailer. Nice to see that there are five variations that a collector could pursue. Kind regards, Bruce

Both the Morris truck and the 25 pdr gun have been packed in yellow end flaps boxes. Was it also the case for the limber ? I have never seen such a box.

No, Jacques, of this trio the limber was the only one that was never sold in an individual (end flaps) box - and, on the contrary, neither the tractor nor the gun were ever sold from trade boxes. Kind regards, Jan

Dear Jan, I suppose that you mean 'the only one that was EVER sold' and not 'the only one that was never sold'.[img]/images/sites/default/files/u184/686-Tradebox.png[/img Photo by courtesy of Adrian Nash. Type 6 trade box having received a label at each end to use it for the ref. 687 trailer for 25-pdr. field gun.

My limitations of using English seem to bother me here, but nevertheless we seem to understand each other, Jacques Still, I am a little surprised about the trade box for the Field Gun, as that one is best known in an individual box and it was introduced such a long time past 1954 that one would not expect it still to have been packed such a way in the mean time. Kind regards, Jan

Jan Yes this is peculiar, It is just some thing else which we can not understand.

I have waited a long time to acquire one of these ammunition trailers with the square ends on the front of the body. It also has plastic wheels and a strenghened towing eye. Chris.