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All-ways fuze part ?
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Well Done Mike, You was correct Yoda always fuse part but needed the Grenade name,,, over to you Mike,,,,,, Dave
Grenade, Hand, Woolwich No 1 (Humphries Pattern). Probably less than a hundred made. Very nice example.
If they believe that Mike...
Anyway here is an interesting contraption, shown in full for a quick answer:
yes, 3-inch rocket. Not prox or baro tho.
No, it is from a regular 3-inch anti-aircraft rocket. I guess I am looking for the fuze/pistol number or the inventor.
Time to move this on. I am not absolutely sure that this is a 717 fuze because I do not have any corroborating evidence but according to a label attached to it, it is "Shoenberg's R-C Fuze" (R-C = Resistor-Condenser). Dr David Shoenberg (son of Sir Isaac - inventor of high definition television and worked at EMI) designed this fuze at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, Cambridge in about 1941. My notes from Hogg attribute Shoenberg's work to the Fuze, Time, Continuously Adjustable, No 717 /N/. I take it that the fuze was 'continuously adjustable' until it left the launch platform.
Over to Spotter.
Arming vane of a british fuze No 848 and serie
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