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    3.7" How ammo box

    Wooden Ammo box for the O.Q.F. 3.7 inch Howitzer.

    The box would have held two complete rounds.
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    Very nice!,

    Is it in your own collection Q?

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    Hello Waff, its the only bit of British Packaging i've ever been able to get my hands on.

    Its a little big to display in my flat so its another of those bits that I'd swap for something smaller!

    Quatermass.

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    Hi Q,

    Try your luck in the swapsy section mate?

    you never know your luck!


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    waff
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    3.7" How ammo box

    Was the 3.7" Howitzer a separately loaded gun? The crate appears to store the cases and projectiles separately.

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    My copy of RAOS Statistics 1943 Pam 2 Weights and Measurements of explosives describes it as a QF gun and lists the different rounds and charges etc and the box type that they went in. This box is dated 1944 and the C318 I which must have been introduced after my copy of RAOS

 

 

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