Light Landing Carriage for the Colt Automatic Machine Gun

This reproduction light landing carriage was reproduced completely from original drawings and photographs. I searched for 11 months and was unable to locate an original light landing carriage to reproduce. I was able to find several photographs, an original copy of Marlin Arms Corporation's Manual for the Colt Automatic Gun 1898 reprinted from 1916 edition and a copy of Handbook of the Colt Automatic Machine Gun, Washington Government Printing Office 1917, revised from August 17, 1901. This project although appearing quite simple posed a great deal of difficulty. The two ammunition chests evident in the illustration below were not commissioned to be built at this time.

This illustration is from Marlin Arms Corporation's Manual for the Colt Automatic Gun.	The completed light landing carriage with the client's original Colt Automatic Machine Gun.
U.S. Marines guard a railroad bridge with Colt Automatic Machine Guns mounted on light landing carriages.

This drawing included in the Handbook of the Colt Automatic Machine Gun is the primary source of information with which I manufactured this reproduction. I was able to produce dimensioned drawings based on this illustration and the overall dimensions given in the manual.

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