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90mm M7H SHELL HE GREGSON &MONK LTD PRESTON
- Thread starter hangarman
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Gregson and Monk ( G & M) of Vulcan Iron Works, Preston are down as being pre-WWI iron founders and engineers, and loom makers machinists. During WWI they made 18-pdr HE shells. They made artillery shells in WWII but I don't know what types - 90 mm looks a distinct possibility from what's marked on your box...
* TimG just pipped me to the post.
Tom.
* TimG just pipped me to the post.
Tom.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OLD-VINTA...RE-PROP-/141230516585?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276
I have been told by my wife NOT to buy it, and as my wife knows best and I know whose right I am going to do as I am told...........
I have been told by my wife NOT to buy it, and as my wife knows best and I know whose right I am going to do as I am told...........
Gary,
It is a little unusual. As far as I can ascertain the only people to use the 90 mm were the Americans and the Canadians and I can't find any examples of the latter using them. Furthermore, it was fixed ammunition. I think the marking is meant to be 90 mm M71 shell.
TimG
It is a little unusual. As far as I can ascertain the only people to use the 90 mm were the Americans and the Canadians and I can't find any examples of the latter using them. Furthermore, it was fixed ammunition. I think the marking is meant to be 90 mm M71 shell.
TimG
BruceLee230
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Found this thread searching for Gregson & Monk Ltd., Preston as I've just purchased this 90mm Shell Box.
Thinking it was WW2 with a British manufacturer making US 90mm shells.
The paper label 90mm M313, Shell Smoke, manufacturer, LOT ? yellow rectangle 7 broad arrow.
This has stuck over a stamp 90mm Shell Lot ? with the rest covered.
After a clean on the other side is ROFW 1953 with RO? above.
There is a K stamped into the wood on one end.
Only a small box. about 13" by 9 1/2" internal.
No lid and what's left of a rusty hinge?
Where we still making US shells in 1953? Could this be WW2 then reused with a new label?
Any help appreciated.
Thinking it was WW2 with a British manufacturer making US 90mm shells.
The paper label 90mm M313, Shell Smoke, manufacturer, LOT ? yellow rectangle 7 broad arrow.
This has stuck over a stamp 90mm Shell Lot ? with the rest covered.
After a clean on the other side is ROFW 1953 with RO? above.
There is a K stamped into the wood on one end.
Only a small box. about 13" by 9 1/2" internal.
No lid and what's left of a rusty hinge?
Where we still making US shells in 1953? Could this be WW2 then reused with a new label?
Any help appreciated.