FAT Fast 17 pounder recovery

[rnixartillery]

wire rope .

Rob .....................rnixartillery.

[Tim Bell]

Rob

What should the primer end block be like please? Do you have one of these?

What's your wire rope skills like?

Just need a 2nd HE shell now.

Cheers
Tim

[Rob Fast]

and a very nice find indeed.

[tankbarrell]

Is your box not a C274 Tim?

[Tim Bell]

Originally Posted by tankbarrell

Is your box not a C274 Tim?

Adrian

The box shown above does not have a number on it.

Am wondering if the original base got broken and someone replaced it with ply... though the replacement if it is would have been a long time ago.

I have another one of these boxes in the pile (picked up 11 of them), so will haul it out and have a look when time to see if that is marked... probably be next week now.

Cheers

Tim

[rnixartillery]

These boxes were very much miss matched when made using what ever timber was available I guess at the time but the lids and bases were generally ply.
The original bottoms all had the box number branded into them to denote their use.


Rob..................rnixartillery

[tankbarrell]

The correct box for the HE round was a C274, the C310 being longer for the APCBC.

I have some sides from a C274 which contained practice flat shot and one small section of base which is T&G and stamped C274 I WI&S LTD 1943. As Rob says, likely boxes were made from whatever met the criterion.

I'd be very interested in a box (or two) if you have a spare!