British-Spanish 37x94R

[MiguelMaxim]

IMG_2157.jpgIMG_2158.jpgIMG_2159.jpgIMG_2160.jpgSome american rounds refurbished by the russians and inspection marks of Tula Patronny Zavod Tula Cartridges Workshop for the Renault FT-17, the mod 16 infantry gun, the M-28 and some other guns.

[MiguelMaxim]

IMG_2161.jpgIMG_2162.jpgIMG_2163.jpgIMG_2164.jpgIMG_2165.jpgThe third round not sure of the correspondence with the russian case, but I had three shells with the same strange driving band and an russian cyrilic b in a triangle marked close to the point. Maybe war time reconstruction.

[MiguelMaxim]

After deactivating it properly, the EOD technicians kept the propelling charge bag filled with rice, instead of the original black powder, for the history. Great! Here we can see the original bag wit some russian markings (and the cardboard piece) on it in the PE&MCo. american round sent by the russians to help the spanish Republican Army in the 1936-1939 civil war. The base fuze was also cut for the deactivation but still in good conditions.IMG_2262.jpgIMG_2263.jpgIMG_2264.jpg

[Gspragge]

There was also one of these found frozen in Lithuania, the fuze is the Driggs Patent fuze and the projectile is also the Driggs pattern.

Driggs projectiles are the first to have what seems to become the American standard rotating band design, his patent was for the knurling of the projectile under the band, the band design seems to appear in 1892 on flat tipped base fuzed iron common shell. The earliest pointed Driggs projectiles I know of are circa 1894 (identical markings as other dated 1894 Drigggs projectiles) and use the separate base bushing/seal which is actually under a Hotchkiss patent which I guess ran out by that date. All the other makers of 37mm 1 Pr projectiles made the one piece body design. Poole seems to have gotten the rights or had some connection to Driggs and used his pattern of projectile and fuze for the Mclean Gun projectiles and MKVlll USN projectiles with a solid base plug. PE&M 1918 subcaliber projectiles are simply lengthened versions of the same projectile.

[Der Uhu]

И.З.= Izhorsky Zavod (Factory maritime agencies)


Read here 37 mm. automatic gun Maklena (MsLean-Lewis):http://ww1.milua.org/R37Macleana.htm
Quote: "According to some information, in Russia about 42 guns 4 guns were Finns, and were used in the winter war as anti-tank vehicle. Guns remaining in the USSR, were delivered to the Spanish Army Lived during the civil war in that country. "

Propelling charge bag