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![]() Of course it is! Now that's been pointed out I remember having a WW2 wooden ammunition box with exactly that kind of liner. (The lip of the box was a 'U' channel and the edges of the lid were rolled over to fit into that so that when the box was filled, the channel was filled with a putty-like sealant and the lid pressed into that to make it airtight and waterproof. The lifting handle was fixed to the lid by a soldered on strip of tinplate like a rather flat pipe saddle clip.) Chris. |
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having got that brilliant info from the Royal Artillery Museum I contacted a local mil Historian who sent me this image and these insights.
" Interesting item. The main field artillery we had in the 1890s were 9-pounder Armstrong RBLs. We got 18 in, second hand, on refurbished carriages probably originally made for Rifled Muzzle-loading guns. It was a 3-inch weapon. Most of their ammunition stowage thought as on the carriage or its limber. But we also had Quick Firing guns, 3- and 6-pounder (Hotchkiss and Nordenfelt), in the forts which would have similar cases (see attached pic, from an 1893 Treatise). " Brent. |
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