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As far as I’m aware there are only two models. The 20 lb is circa 55cm long and the 10lb is 40cm long. Yours is I think the 20lb more common version.

The 10-lb version is particularly hard to find whereas the 20-lb is relatively common. The Cooper Bomb was still in service at the beginning of WW2...

Thank you, it just shows how you take things for granted (i grew up with the bomb in the house) and had never checked the dimensions. It is about...

Hi Joe, It looks like the British No. 56 Mk IV (they were all Mk IV). Depotman

It could be a Hale's 10-Pound Bomb. A few measurements would confirm or otherwise.

Does anyone have this head stamp on something? I'm curious to see it. Joe

I have ID'd it as the Chinese 120mm DHTL-1, PZC RAP, Mortar. Got more pictures but no tech data

Many thanks Minenaz16, I'll re check but I'm sure the threads are different. If so, I'll post a couple of pics showing each fuze. Thanks again!

Spectacular. I don't recall reading anything about them in any of the books on the Russian Front I have read. Do you know when they came into...

I was recently able to visit the Faversham Cemetery to see the mass grave. The names on the two memorials confirm that there were 108 burials with...

I have never heard of Victor Harbour having a ammo manufacturing facility of any description, too small a place, more of a tourist destination by the...

The GMH Woodville plant also made 6pdr 7cwt guns as well as 20mm POLSTEN guns. I will find a pic showing what looks like 2pdr Vickers shell bodies...

A pic of a GMH/W 40mm Bofors Proj. FYI. Regards Ozzi.

Thanks for that Ron, its just what i was doing i first Anneal the top and slowly worked away at it with a wooden mallet, having first inserted a...

Andy. I have straightened many cases like yours with varied success using the old soft hammer and about 1 hour labour. Anneal it first and I use...

Thanks reccetroper, I might try that. Cheers Andy

I thought there was something about that GM. I have some old manuscript notes that show two MC listings for Victoria - McD/V I think it's McDarwin...

I haven’t tried this but have read of it being done. Anneal the case mouth to soften the brass. Put a hardwood former into the case to support it....

Hello, Maybe your fuze is damaged as these fuzes shoud have same thread (thread 24mm/base fuze 31mm) (Be careful, common shrapnel, except later,...

Thanks Alpini, I originally got the case as i wanted to section it, i only have a wood lathe so i might have a go on that, but just wanted some...

Generally when they've been flared that far the brass has been stretched too much to go back without rippling. It's a common old Kynoch case, so...

If you own a lathe have a look at the "metal spinning" process. It requires glowing the case to make the brass soft prior to work start and most...

Hi Joe, I have receive an answer from Poland. It should be 93 in an oval. Yoda

That must be a extremely rare base stamp to go through all the trouble of de-flaring it. Quite impossible to do that invisible without professional...

Hi Tim, it's definitely only MC over V only. GMH-W was General Motors Holden's, Woodville, South Australia (They started as Holden's Motor Body...