Grenade boxes

[Lynn Eades]

Tom, I think your 7 is a 4 as in TL1242/A I may be wrong?
Anyhow, I believe they mount on a wooden spacer. There is an involved thread, but have not searched it.
Some boxes have the corner cut off. Some have both sets of holes some have no holes(NOS?) Some have the 4 hole pattern and (obviously) only have the two hole pattern. Mine are marked TL 1242/A (1941), TL1243/A (1941), and one is TL12186 (1940) (un drilled)
See pictures. Note that the bolt patterns can be off set.
Can anyone tell me why my photos have started coming through up side down. I have used this Samsung S5 for 6 years and they go onto Trademe the right way up? Someone is welcome to flip them over.

[Jordan Baker]

I believe the one with the corner cut off is for up beside the driver.

[Tom Millward]

Hello Lynn,

You're absolutely right, the box does read CTL 1243/A. Thanks for the pictures. I'll have a search for the thread you refer to. The amount of information on this forum is brilliant, I've been building up a library of pictures and drawings of all the parts I need to make.

If you have any spare of the Driver's grenade box I would be happy to take one of your hands , as I'm missing the Driver's grenade box.

Perhaps the undrilled boxes were a way of simplifying the manufacture process so they didn't need to make two types of boxes and left the drilling and fitting to the REME, particularly if the boxes fitted other vehicles?