WHY? or alternate title: Can one of you Brits explain this to me?

[Lynn Eades]

Bruce, in Britain's defence, that hideously grotesque, user unfriendly, engineering nightmare, called a grease gun, was probably conceived during a rubber shortage.
Its primary function was to distract German engineers from their work, while they pondered what it was and how to use it.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Bruce, in Britain's defence, that hideously grotesque, user unfriendly, engineering nightmare, called a grease gun, was probably conceived during a rubber shortage.
Its primary function was to distract German engineers from their work, while they pondered what it was and how to use it.

Ah-ha...it makes perfect sense!!! And any collateral pondering by colonial troops wondering the same thing as those German engineers was a small, manageable price to pay. Devilishly ingenious.

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Bruce, in Britain's defence, that hideously grotesque, user unfriendly, engineering nightmare, called a grease gun, was probably conceived during a rubber shortage.
Its primary function was to distract German engineers from their work, while they pondered what it was and how to use it.

I have a feeling this grease pump is a postwar item and part of the kit for a tank (maybe Cent?) and that is why the pipe line is designed in such a way that it stowed neatly.

[Lauren Child]

Originally Posted by Richard Farrant

I have a feeling this grease pump is a postwar item and part of the kit for a tank (maybe Cent?) and that is why the pipe line is designed in such a way that it stowed neatly.

I think we may both be right - Cents also used the Andy (or at least some did).

[Lynn Eades]

Lauren, you can't stop at that! (have I been set up?) What's an Andy?

[Lauren Child]

It's a big-ass grease gun that squirts at very high pressure - I'll take a pic tonight and upload it. You can use grease or oil.

It's called an Andy 5000, but people also seem to call them Oddy (and in some if the formal docs) so I'd imagine that's another brand.

[Lauren Child]

Blimey, it turns out that the picture actually shows an Oddy, and the Andy is an alternative type!

http://www.collectorssource.com/oddy...rion-tank.html

[Richard Farrant]

In the 1951 issue of 6MT15 Vocab, there are two Oddy pumps listed, first one is Pump, High Pressure, Grease TT/H9491 as issued to Amphibian tracked, Neptune.
Then there is another with same manufacturers type number of TT/H9491, but listed as 'modified', the notable difference is in one of the demandable components, Pipe, Articulated Assy. This would be a good description of the folding pipe.

Standby for the Colonials to post their jokes