FAT Fast 17 pounder recovery

[Tim Bell]

Rob

What should the primer end block be like please? Do you have one of these?

What's your wire rope skills like?

Just need a 2nd HE shell now.

Cheers
Tim

[Rob Fast]

and a very nice find indeed.

[tankbarrell]

Is your box not a C274 Tim?

[Tim Bell]

Originally Posted by tankbarrell

Is your box not a C274 Tim?

Adrian

The box shown above does not have a number on it.

Am wondering if the original base got broken and someone replaced it with ply... though the replacement if it is would have been a long time ago.

I have another one of these boxes in the pile (picked up 11 of them), so will haul it out and have a look when time to see if that is marked... probably be next week now.

Cheers

Tim

[rnixartillery]

These boxes were very much miss matched when made using what ever timber was available I guess at the time but the lids and bases were generally ply.
The original bottoms all had the box number branded into them to denote their use.


Rob..................rnixartillery

[tankbarrell]

The correct box for the HE round was a C274, the C310 being longer for the APCBC.

I have some sides from a C274 which contained practice flat shot and one small section of base which is T&G and stamped C274 I WI&S LTD 1943. As Rob says, likely boxes were made from whatever met the criterion.

I'd be very interested in a box (or two) if you have a spare!

[John McGillivray]

Originally Posted by tankbarrell

The correct box for the HE round was a C274, the C310 being longer for the APCBC.

There were two types of 17pdr HE rounds. Shell HE/T Mk I fitted on round Mk 3 had an overall length of 35.25 inches. It was not suitable for use in tanks as its length precludes stowage in A.F.V. ammunition racks. Packages containing these rounds are stencilled "For use in Anti-tank guns only." The smaller HE round for use in AFVs has an over length of 31.68 inches.