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The "tar and rope inendiaries", or to be given their full original name, the "Goldschmidt Incendiary Bombs", consisted of simple metal canisters filled with a mix of thermite, tar, and benzol; then being being wrapped in tarred rope and fitted with a simple fuse.
A sample of this bomb, fallen without igniting at Bury St Edmunds was widely copied amd prduced by the British from 1916 onwards. A percussionn cap underneath exploded on impact. (on the Carbonit bombs, including incendiaries, the Fuze was at the tail, but Carbonit incendiaries were not of the "tar and rope" design) http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib/249/media-249680/standard.jpg
Materials
inner cylinder: metal
outer wrapping: rope
Dimensions
general: Height 500 mm
general: Diameter 180 mm
Full Name: (Zeppelin) Goldschmidt Incendiary Bomb
Dr. Hans Goldschmidt, a German chemist was also the scientist who discovered the Thermite in 1893 and the first to find a method for igniting it without explosion.
These are the schematic drawings I have for "zeppelin incendiary bombs" - for the "8.5kg tronconic incendiary" bomb pattern - from French publications of the period
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