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Pat, I could be way off here, but it doesn't look to me as though it belongs to that program. Prototypes can take many different routes, but flight...

Does it have any timeframe dates anywhere?

6.3 inch gas check

Hello Chris, I have a paper copy of the HDv 481-60. The original wasn't in color, but in black and white. Difficult to read because the text part...

Thanks @Greif: that's what I was wondering about because most dutch fuzes of that time I have seen were made from brass. @Snuffkin: I also meant...

The Dutch Tijdschokbuis No. 6 was made of brass and only used by the Dutch colonial army (NIL).

Vickers Sons and Maxim Ltd, not Vickers-Armstrongs. VSM had a 1902-dated royalty agreement in place with Krupp to make any of the Krupp fuzes up...

Wonder why nobody bought it? If it were a German tool I would have immediately bid on it. At least here such tools are very hard to find.

Yes it's a classic Krupp fuze. Not sure why Vickers-Armstrong made these drawings but I don't think they produced this type. Maybe just example...

I’am asking because i’m not sure. The U.S. Neptune base fuze looked some what like this one. I can read the top No 3 and a canceling Mark though the...

Not a base fuze, it would have a left hand thread, empty??

Why do you think it's a base fuze ? Without other details, I only see a shell head brass adapter with a transit plug and maybe the bottom of a HE...

Likely a British gauge. J T Lowke and Sons, Northampton are listed as making jigs and gauges for 4.5-inch shell.

Daft question, but is there any way of distinguishing whether this is a British piece, or Canadian/American? Also, is it for 4.5 shells?

Great work! I just wonder how the 8,8 cm Ltgr L/4,4 for Heer/Luftwaffe guns was marked... Did it have the black band under the fuse too?

With that thread and lack of taper seating, unless for export, it's not British. Does appear to have Krupp heritage. TimG

thank you. The fuze is 100 percent Inert i have taken it apart and x-rayed it myself.

have you any information on that fuze?

Loos like a British VSM s/35 (maybe a krupp inspiration). I assume quite rare. Be careful your fuze is live (emissions holes closed)

Different stabilizer and fuze position And designation is not L or Kz but both "L", and add "Kz" for the second "Kurz" So PWM 1 (L) and PWM1 (L)...

I think the L had fins and the Kz had a streamer to stabilise it. If you look at the bottom two images on the Lexpev page you have linked to, then...

No, it's the quite long one! It's from the Conqueror heavy tank.

Is that the very short cartridge case? Depotman

Many thanks guys. Cases were never my collecting thing', just the projectiles. Now I find I need three for a carrying basket, when years ago I had...