17 pdr steel ammo box photo need.

[Kurtis Tsang]

Hi,

Does anyone can help to provide detail photo( 6 sides view and inside) for the 17 pdr AT gun steel ammo box ? Thanks in advance.

I had tried to register at www.bocn.co.uk but failed.

Kurtis

[Clive_Dakers]

As the moderator for the Ammunition Packaging and Containers on BOCN I would also like to have these pics as they are missing from the database

The box in question is C.274 I, 36" long, 15" wide and 8.8" deep. It held 2 rounds

If you contact me by PM I'll try to help you resolve your registration problem.

[malcolm erik bogaert]

Clive with your extensive knowledge could you please oblige and let me know what these 4 boxes of mine wheree used for 1 box marked LAY/C 1 1942:second box marked AB/1 SF 1942: third box marked C-224 FT 1944: and ther last box marked C-636-----1944 2 of the boxes are marked to a Capt.Fraser...In anticipation of your valued co-operation in this matter regards malcolm

[Clive_Dakers]

There isnt a smily for "Takes a deep breath...." so here goes anyway

LAY/C 1 1942 (LAY = manufacturer)
I have a note of C.1 A (26.25" x 17.9" x 17.5")
6-in. 26-cwt B.L. howitzer Cartridge 4-lb, 10 1/2-oz , charge
and
C.1 mk I A (possibly the same box as most things start off as a mk I) (26.25" x 17.9" x 17.5")

18-pr. Q.F. gun 8-oz. 12-dr (blank)
18-pr. Q.F. gun 1lb. (blank)
18-pr. Q.F. gun 3lb. (blank)

C-224 FT 1944(24.7" x 15.25" x 10.125") (FT = manufacturer)

2-in. Q.F. howitzer Smoke
4.5-in. B.L. gun Cordite W 1st charge
4.5-in. B.L. gun Cordite W 2nd and 3rd charge
6-in. 26-cwt. B.L. howitzer 4-lb. 6-oz. 4-dr charge
Generator Smoke No.23, chem

C-636-----1944
is this number correct? Current boxes arn't numbered this high

AB/1 SF 1942 (pass, I'll take the next one on sport)

can you do picccies?

[malcolm erik bogaert]

Clive many many thanks for your impressive reply to my question...the boxes I have came from a train which had been parked up in a siding somewhere and just forgot about....labels in the boxes indicate they had been used by Polish troops who where being sent home to Poland by ship after the war...however the story is that the ship sank and all contents that where salvaged where stored in the old train....enlosed I hope are the pictures of same best regards malcolm