Ian Giles (asker) Jun 26, 2013:

Archaisms Anna! Working from a text written by a Swedish tycoon in ~1920 - doubtless he wasn't aware that he was meant to Swedish-ise his French!

Thanks all.

Anna Herbst Jun 26, 2013:

@ Norskpro I should have put a ;-) to end my previous entry.

Norskpro Jun 26, 2013:

@Anna Herbst Although the correct spelling in Swedish is "lavett", this is not the spelling used in the question. It was, however, the spelling I gave in my Norwegian term. I wrote the Norwegian term by mistake, but I did give the term "gun carriage" as a first answerer, which is a term so well known that I did not think it necessary to give references.

Anna Herbst Jun 26, 2013:

Norwegian? "Lavett" is the correct Swedish spelling...

Norskpro Jun 25, 2013:

French? So my Norwegian term, without an e, was a help then? :-)

Ian Giles (asker) Jun 25, 2013:

Blummin' French. I just needed to remove the 'e' to work it out... Thanks both - will let this progress and see where to award points, but both good referenced answers.