Something Borrowed, Something Bleu (IV)

A decision-forcing case

This post concludes a multi-part case. So, if you haven’t done so already, please read the first three articles in the series.

Something Borrowed, Something Bleu

Something Borrowed, Something Bleu (II)

Something Borrowed, Something Bleu (III)

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You soldiered on.

Between 1900 and 1903, you built, and improved, prototypes of the ‘recycled barrel’ howitzer he had agreed to develop. At the same time, you provided the new weapon with all of the accessories, such as limbers and sights, that would be needed to employ the new weapon in the field.

Notwithstanding his earlier misgivings, you seem to have felt a degree of optimism about the prospects for the hybrid weapon you had designed. At the very least, you felt sufficiently confident in the practicality of the approach to propose, sometime in 1902, a program to mount the barrels of three other obsolete artillery pieces - all of which had been adopted between 1877 and 1881 - on quick-firing carriages.