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    2" Illuminating mortar

    Another one of my boot sale buys, an empty 2" Illuminationg mortar in quite good nick for £2. What do the markings mean? I know the main ones indicating what the round is, but on the opposite side there is:

    12
    H&W 3/68

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    R.I.10/66

    Stamped into the tail fins there is:

    NO4-LOT523
    BCB 12 66

    And the tail cap:

    2/51 S ORB 3

    I would be grateful if anyone can tell me about the maker's marks or other markings.

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    Looks like four different makers for four individual parts. The only one I know is H&W which was Haley and weller, now part of the Pains Wessex group, PWD.
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    I suppose Pains-Wessex (Manufacturer of flares etc.) would be the manufacturers of the pyrotechnic component. The other marking on the body would have presumably been the maker of the body itself.
    Last edited by Falcon; 29th August 2008 at 09:36 PM.

 

 

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