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- Thread starter jvollenberg
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Joe,
I have been looking for information on this fuze. You will appreciate that this is a commencial fuze by Armstrong. There were three sizes (small, medium and large). The UK took the small (numbered it 53) and the medium (52) but not the large fuze. The fuzes differ in the time of burning and can probably be distinguised by the graduations which are 5.8 (or 14.65 seconds) for the Large Fuze, 4.9 (or 11 seconds) for the Medium Fuze and 4.2 (or 8 seconds) for the Small Fuze.
I wondered if you might have a 'Large Fuze', and/or a Fuze submitted for consideration by US Ordnance. To that end I tried to see if it features in the US Annual Reports of the Chief of Ordnance. The good news is that Fuze, Combination, Armstrong [description and test] appears in the 1891 report on page 733. The bad news is that this volume is missing in my set. I couldn't locate it on the internet.
So if you have access to a copy of the 1891 report complete with its appendices I would be interested to hear if the article is related to the same fuze and if that fuze is all brass.
Thanks
I have been looking for information on this fuze. You will appreciate that this is a commencial fuze by Armstrong. There were three sizes (small, medium and large). The UK took the small (numbered it 53) and the medium (52) but not the large fuze. The fuzes differ in the time of burning and can probably be distinguised by the graduations which are 5.8 (or 14.65 seconds) for the Large Fuze, 4.9 (or 11 seconds) for the Medium Fuze and 4.2 (or 8 seconds) for the Small Fuze.
I wondered if you might have a 'Large Fuze', and/or a Fuze submitted for consideration by US Ordnance. To that end I tried to see if it features in the US Annual Reports of the Chief of Ordnance. The good news is that Fuze, Combination, Armstrong [description and test] appears in the 1891 report on page 733. The bad news is that this volume is missing in my set. I couldn't locate it on the internet.
So if you have access to a copy of the 1891 report complete with its appendices I would be interested to hear if the article is related to the same fuze and if that fuze is all brass.
Thanks
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Joe,
there is a copy of the report online (as 1892 rather than 1891) at:
https://ia802604.us.archive.org/20/items/reportchiefordn00deptgoog/reportchiefordn00deptgoog.pdf
and there is a very good diagram included (page 733 onwards). Same fuze family but not identical to your example. Worth extracting if you are interested in British fuzes or fuzes trialled in the US.
there is a copy of the report online (as 1892 rather than 1891) at:
https://ia802604.us.archive.org/20/items/reportchiefordn00deptgoog/reportchiefordn00deptgoog.pdf
and there is a very good diagram included (page 733 onwards). Same fuze family but not identical to your example. Worth extracting if you are interested in British fuzes or fuzes trialled in the US.