Interestingly, the reason for the article Gough Thomas published on longer shells in short chambers were that some of his readers reasoned such loads would have to be real "pipsqueaks" because of the additional pressure coming from the longer hull. The Eley tests showed that both velocity and pressure remained the same, whether the 2 3/4" shells in question were fired in 2 1/2" or 2 3/4" chambers.