Museum review: Firepower

Roger
3 March 2007

The museum of the Royal Artillery, this collection was started by Sir William Congreve and has grown ever since. It now occupies two buildings: first from the beginning of gunpowder weaponry to the Second World War, with light cannon upstairs and vehicles downstairs, and secondly from the end of the Second World War to the present, all of which deals with vehicles. They have several unusual prototypes, including a Green Mace and an SP70 self-propelled gun, as well as a Z-battery rocket launcher, towed and tracked Rapiers, and even a Humber Pig.


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