Wd Metallic Containers

[Van Hove Herman]

Hi,


Is there anyone who can tell me what there was normally
inside this kind of metallic containers ?
Both are dated WD 1940 and has a different manufacturer.
One is made by UTTLEY INGHAM & Co LTD and the other by
BULPITT & SONS LTD - BIRMINGHAM.

[PPS]

This is only a pure guess, but could they have been containers for air-drops over troop formations or clandestine operations?

Paul.

[shrapnel]

They look like WW2 british containers for artillery rounds...

[Neil Ashley]

Is their any padding inside to take a optical range finder or similar.

[Dusonn]

A friend of mine owns exactly the same container. There is still a visible sign on the lid saying Czechoslovak HQ it means that it was used by the Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade Group. Apparently these shoud be british map containers.

[Lang]

We used these in an Army reserve artillery unit I was in when I was 17 (way back in the 60's). They are map containers - but they will hold 8 cans of beer with finely crushed ice..