[Huge Coast Defense gun being transported through Rhode Island]

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Local identifier: AAC-1049
Title: [Huge Coast Defense gun being transported through Rhode Island]
Date: 1941 Aug. 30
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Note: Folder: S.F. Districts-Presidio-Guns.
Note on photo: "145 TONS OF DEFENSE - COMPTON, R. I.--Huge coast defense rifle is transported from Tiverton, Rhode Island, to Fort Church, near Compton, R. I., for installation. This great gun weighs almost 145 tons, is 68 feet long, and was hauled on a tractor with double trailers equipped with a total of 38 huge pneumatic truck tires. The semi-trailer and dolly-trailer each use 16 size 10.00-16 tires and the tractor uses two size 12.00-24 tires on front and four 14.00-24 tires on the rear. Approximate speed of the haul was two miles per hour.".
"Acme Newspictures Inc."
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Artillery--California--San Francisco
Presidio of San Francisco (Calif.)
Bibliographic Number: .b1016375x
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:131376