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What is it and how old?

Picked this up in New Zealand and trying to find out what it was from and when it dates from.
I would like to inspect the workings but cant figure it out :)
 

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The brass item appears to be "Time, Mechanism, 80 sec" not 43 sec as there appears to be a semi circular channel to the left of the regulator.

The fuze was made by "BN" - R.O.F. Blackburn, they didn't start using the "BN" monogram until 7th February 1963.

The body is far too big to be a magazine and is more than likely a battery container for a proximty fuze. It may well be wishful thinking on my part, but in the first image there appears to be electrical contacts above the mechanism. The body does look like a butchered lower part to something like a C.V.T. L7A1 Fuze. The C.V.T. fuzes were a marriage of a radio proximity fuze and a mechanical fuze.

TimG

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