Anyone identify this British interwar at gun?

[Vintage Wargaming]

[The Dozing Dragon]

No but it's a great idea for a conversion!

[Arlequín]

It looks like a OQF 3-pdr Gun, as used on Vickers 6-tonners and the Medium Mk.II. Maybe they are wrong about it being 'over 50mm' and mean under (47mm). It looks like a 'workshop-made' mock-up carriage and mount too. At least one of those chaps is in danger of serious injury if they shoot it too; the breech will recoil about a foot or so.

The only other weapon I can think of is the Hotchkiss QF 6pdr (57mm) naval gun and it looks way too small.

[Vintage Wargaming]

The photo is from the Wonder Book of Soldiers ninth edition, a kids' book from 1939.

As one of the other caption sis infantry learn to use the bren gun and they have two Boys ATRs I wouldn't rely too much on the text.

[Arlequín]

That would be one interesting book, even if the captions are wrong. 

I'm pretty certain that it is a mock-up using the short-barrelled OQF 3 pdr used in the Vickers 6-tonners. The Army had four of those tanks when they were new (1930-ish), so it is possible. If the book was from 1939 I am surprised they couldn't get hold of a photo of the 2pdr, which was in service by then. I suspect that the photo itself was from the Early or Mid-Thirties though.

On a different note, a thanks for posting the old Terry Wise 'Airfix Magazine' stuff on Operation Sea Lion on your blog... which is itself a trip down memory lane.

 

[Vintage Wargaming]

It's stuffed full pf photographs, many of them interwar, I suspect from earlier editions of the book, which was first published at the end of the Great War, I think. They are different editions of the same book rather than a set of annuals.

I haven't spotted any pictures of 2 pdrs but there is one of two Bofors 37mm a/t guns

[Arlequín]

Bofors were bought to make up for a shortage in 2pdrs in '38 (iirc, failing that '39). Twelve 25mm Hotchkiss AT guns had also been bought in 1936 to reinforce the army in Egypt. So I would expect to see some 'exotic' items appear.

I do think you're right and I suspect they updated each edition with new photos as they became available, but otherwise kept what they had from previous editions.