Livens Large Gallery Flame Projectors were large experimental flamethrowers used by the British Army in World War I, named after their inventor, Royal Engineers officer William Howard Livens.

The Livens Flame Projector, or the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector, was a weapon used on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and then just once more in 1917. While some remnants of the projectors have been found on the battlefield near Mametz, there are no complete Livens Flame projectors in existence today.

2017年11月21日 · Now imagine a small nozzle rising above the battlefield from a hidden underground tunnel, pivoting and spewing an Livens Large Gallery Flame Projectors, one of the more unique weapons developed...

2015年3月31日 · The Livens Flame Projector, strictly the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector, was used on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and only once after that in 1917. None of the Livens Flame projectors exist today though remnants have been found on the Somme battlefield near Mametz.

The Livens Projector was created by Captain William Livens of the Royal Engineers. [8] Livens designed a number of novel weapons, including a large-calibre flame thrower, to engulf German trenches in burning oil, that was deployed at the Somme in 1916.

Livens Large Gallery Flame Projectors were large experimental flamethrowers used by the British Army in World War I, named after their inventor, Royal Engineers officer William Howard Livens.

Livens Large Gallery Flame Projectors were large experimental flamethrowers used by the British Army in World War I. They were named after their inventor, a Royal Engineers officer William Howard Livens.

2014年8月3日 · In 2010, a team of archaeologists excavated the muddy fields of Montagne de Cappy, a mile south of Mametz in the Somme department of northern France, looking for the remains of the last Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector, a 56-foot-long, 2.5 ton flamethrower invented by Royal Engineers officer William Howard Livens to shoot a 300-foot wall of ...

2014年8月1日 · You’re looking at a Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector in action, the mother and father of all flamethrowers, capable of torching everything as far as 100 to 130 feet away (30 to 40...

This article discusses the development of the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector, a massive British flamethrower that was used against German trenches in the Battle of the Somme in 1916.