Excerpts from OCM (Ordnance Committee Meeting) reports

[Eodtek]

I'm pouring through some of the old OCM reports and have found some interesting snippets:

These are all from 1921.

Item #1347
Obsolete Types of Hand Grenades
Major Hardigg read the following report of the Sub-Committee on Grenades:
W1. The sub-committee on Grenades has considered a communication from the Commanding Officer, Hawaii Ordnance Depot, dated January 25, 1921, 0.0. 471.611/401, reporting on hand, 8390 Hand Grenades, Dummy, manufactured at Frankford Arsenal, in accordance with Drawing 82-2-3 and 930 Hand (probably Rifle) Grenades, Dummy, Babbitt type. The old type Frankford Arsenal hand and rifle grenades were discontinued at the beginning of the war and the sub-committee recommence that authority be obtained from the Adjutant General to have these old types of hand and rifle grenades, both the dummy and service types, declared obsolete
and disposed of in accordance with existing law, The grenades referred to are those described in Ordnance Pamphlet #1741, last revised, Janu@ry 12, 1917.

A motion was made, seconded, and carried that the report of the Sub-Committee be approved.

I wonder how they disposed of them and how many there were?

Bouchon Assembly for Hand Grenades
Mr. Adelman read the following report of the Subcommittee
on Grenades:
11~. A sub-committees on grenades has considered a memorandum from the Ammunition Division relating to improvement in bouchon assembly for
the present supply of hand grenades, The subcommittee recommended that further work on this type of bouchon assembly be dropped since the quantity on hand is sufficient to meet all needs, and future development in grenades will probably materially change the design of the present type
of hand grenade.

Mr. Adelman states that this assembly provides for the firing spring to be carried in an uncompressed position, while in the present type it is carried in a compressed position.

A motion was made, seconded, and carried that the report of the Sub-Committee be approved.

I wonder how that would have worked with a striker not under spring tension.

 

[vinnyw]

Thats some great stuff,very interesting,thanks for posting it.
Vinny :tinysmile_classes_t