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Why "travel" and not "safe"?

SG500

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I've often wondered why they stamped "travel" and not "safe" on British number 1 grenades.

Thanks to an extract from the "Annual Report of the President, Ordnance Committee for the year 1906", kindly supplied by Norman Bonney, we've now got the answer.

Dave.

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