Drawn in 1906, with a prototype built three years later and finally produced in 1911, the cannon in Cannon Square was a tragically lethal model - loaded with 200 kg projectiles which would cause craters 8 meters deep. the Skoda iIndustries (not just cars, which will enter production in 1923 with a proper office) had given birth to a terrifying weapon, of which nowadays three models are know to still exist. The one we see here, at the Sforzesco Castle, was removed in the postwar and it is still missing and, mysteriously, lost...
Drawn in 1906, with a prototype built three years later and finally produced in 1911, the cannon in Cannon Square was a tragically lethal model - loaded with 200 kg projectiles which would cause craters 8 meters deep. the Skoda iIndustries (not just cars, which will enter production in 1923 with a proper office) had given birth to a terrifying weapon, of which nowadays three models are know to still exist. The one we see here, at the Sforzesco Castle, was removed in the postwar and it is still missing and, mysteriously, lost...