[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

If I remember right the regulations were that a Bofors barrel should be changed in less than 2 minutes but a good guncrew could do it within 30 seconds.

There were normally two barrels to each guns. One was used in daytime and the other (wich was more worn out) during nights. Firing at night meant more ammo spent and the night barrel became worn out. In daytime the precision was better and not so many rounds needed to hit the target.

The carriages are dangerous. We had several accidents during WW 2 including fatal ones.

Normally a Bofors Mk I mount should only have brakes on the rear wheels. The original brakes were mechanical and worked with a rope.

BTW. I love Malta but I have not been there during the last 30 years. In the 1960-ies and 70-ies I went there at least twice a year, but then they stopped to have charter flights to Malta from Sweden.