The repair of the two Krupp howitzers was thus a different story. All that could be done was to remanufacture one gun from the parts that remained. Both barrels were beyond repair but there were enough other pieces to repair the running gear. In the workshops of the Zuid Afrikaansche Spoorweg Maatschappij in Pretoria a Norwegian engineer, a Mr Uggla and his colleagues manufactured a new barrel from a steel section found somewhere in Johannesburg. It was necessary also to make a new breech block. The photograph of Mr Uggla and his colleagues with the new parts that they had made (and what remained of the old gun) includes a shiny new breech block. Certainly, they were talented engineers to have managed such an undertaking. It is said that the new gun had the same ballistic qualities as the original which is even more of a tribute to their expertise.
