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05-07-10, 19:27
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17 pounder anti-tank gun
Hi Rod
VERY impresive collection you have,I wish you were a bit nearer  .I was very lucky also to find a 17 pdr and have restored it over the past 10 years,finding parts for this gun in the UK is virtualy impossible but it is now almost complete. It would be nice to find a few ammo boxes to display with the piece . I am currenty restoring a Canadian 6 pdr and seems to be in similar condition to the one you have also missing the lower splinter plate which I am currently fabricating. A few pics of my old girl !!! Rob ...................rnixartillery. Last edited by rnixartillery; 27-07-19 at 21:59. 
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05-07-10, 19:47
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17 pdr
Nice to see 17 PDR been rebuilded please keep sending update.
Were 17 PDR guns used for salute? I mean using black powder salvo. Gilles UBIQUE
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05-07-10, 20:29
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Service Publications put out this monograph on the 17pdr which may be of interest to some forumites;
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05-07-10, 20:53
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OOooohhhh, nice. The box you want is the C238 A mkI. You don't see many about nowadays but the mk II's constantly turn up on Ebay. Don't pay more that a tenner though. The difference is internal, the mk I has some rails inside that are missing from the mk II. The stack under the cam net is the one you are after. (I have 110  ) 
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06-07-10, 00:24
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You have FAR too many of those ammo boxes,If you decide to cut down at any time I would be interested in a couple !! I picked these up not so long ago but can't place them to a gun,does anyone know what they are for ? Rob...................rnixartillery Last edited by rnixartillery; 27-07-19 at 21:59.
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06-07-10, 05:52
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looks nice seems you have one Aussie handle and one English handle on your gun . The standard ammo tins issued with guns here are two round steel tin with water proof twin screw down steel lid and variant on the 3.7" aa gun ammo box with three lock down clips on lid and cardboad tubes same as in waterproof tin .
The boxes you have there look like six pounder four round tins but appear slightly larger wil try and post a few shots for you few original ww2 17pdr tins in the collection few survive survive today but if you are lucky one can turn them up and soem may even have original paint !!! Gilles to my knowledge 17pdr are not used for salute as they are anti tank issue and that task was firmly taken by artillry of more standard types ie 18pdr then 25pdr now 105mm in most commonwealth armies . The best gun of the three Aussie I have is fully functional once I polish the chamber and may see some use in future with State police permission of course for ceromonial display in the future when time allows , the second one is not far behind it if we can locale the elevator rear boxes and th ethird is a bit behind that regards Rod
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