Which bomb fuze is this?

**peteblight** · 1st November 2011, 10:04 AM

Can some one ID this bomb fuze please?

Thanks

Pete

No fuze side view.jpg No Fuze.jpg

**Fusse2004** · 1st November 2011, 12:52 PM

Hey Pete!!! this it a No.38 Mk.I Nose Pistol ,for F 20 lb bomb without parachute and GP 40 lb bomb without parachute Gruß Harry

**Chris** · 1st November 2011, 01:24 PM

Did the No 38 hat not only four vans????

Chris

**Fusse2004** · 1st November 2011, 06:45 PM

Hey Chris!

you are right!!!! Harry

**eodda** · 1st November 2011, 08:20 PM

Pete

It's not a No.38 Pistol, but I don't know what it is!!! If you do find out I'd like to know, because I've had one of the same vane caps for years and can't identify it!! It's interesting that it doesn't have any body threads for fitting to the bomb/flare which would tend to preclude a whole range of the normal weapons. Aren't there any markings on the body?

Regards

eodda

**peteblight** · 1st November 2011, 08:42 PM

The bomb it was attached to was what i know as a Childs bomb, i'm not sure if this the correct term though!

Cheers

Pete

Childs bomb.jpg image1119.jpg Childs Bomb 02.jpg

**glevum** · 1st November 2011, 11:39 PM

Pete,

What is a Childs Bomb?

Will.

**Yodamaster** · 2nd November 2011, 11:53 AM

Waow !
First one I hear of this bomb ! What's this for a bomb ? It let me think on the US incendiary bombs with his retractable tail, but that the only think that I can think about it !
The fuze is apparently member of the Pistol No 44 serie. But the function of a same pistol is difficult to imagine on a little bomb like that !
What are you thinking of that ?

Yoda

**Chris** · 2nd November 2011, 03:02 PM

I'm told that the child bomb was a chemical one and tried out at Porton Down.
It never went into service.

Chris

**EOD** · 3rd November 2011, 02:20 PM

Looks much like it was a cluster bomb too.

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