1906/7 18 Pounder

[Darkman]

Here's a nice early 18 pdr cartridge I have.
Fuze is a No. 80 Mk I by COW dated 1907 (unfired). Shell is a Mk I by VSM dated 1906, Case is a Mk I by COW dated 1906.
But who or what is HD on the case at the 9 o'clock position?

Merry Christmas!

Graeme

 

[ron3350]

Great cartridge. I see Indian Arsenal marking under COW and on the primer.

 

[Snufkin]

The primer was made at Cossipore, and filled just up the road at Dum Dum. Indian inspection mark at 12 o'clock on the case, same as on the Cossipore primer here:

http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/82345-Indian-18-pounder?highlight=cossipore

C /|\ F mark is probably either an Indian cartridge factory or filling mark - an earlier Lot number is cancelled.


(As for HD, the monogam was used by Harper, Sons and Bean of Dudley during WWI, a company producing large quantities of shell materiel during the war. Not sure of any munitions work pre-war.)

 

[TimG]

I've seen 'HD' on a number of cases, although the textbooks state that 'H' denotes a head formed by hammering, I think it might 'HD'

TimG