Bofors 40mm Spare barrel box question???

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

I also see the "C428" on the paper on the lid, which I presume is the official name of the barrel box.

I did quick search on the British Ordnance Collectors Network site but could only find C219, which is the designation for the 40 mm ammunition box for 40mm QF Bofors: https://www.bocn.co.uk/threads/c219-...-bofors.12441/

[Alex van de Wetering]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

I did quick search on the British Ordnance Collectors Network site but could only find C219, which is the designation for the 40 mm ammunition box for 40mm QF Bofors: https://www.bocn.co.uk/threads/c219-...-bofors.12441/

Yes, sorry about that....my comments on the "C" number was only a hunch....and wrong!
C216 and C219 are indeed the 40mm ammunition boxes; the first for the ammo in clips of 4; the latter with the ammo stored in cardboard boxes.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Originally Posted by rob love

There was this one that Rob Fast posted many years ago here: http://mapleleafup.net/forums/showth...1384#post81384

Rob Fast or Rob Love.... Could you confirm that the top of the lid is just flat with 2 or three thin metal strips keeping the wood together?

BTW; I asked IMA if that had more pictures on file of the spare barrel boxes they had for sale a while ago, but they only had the two small pictures on their web page.