20mm Hispano

[Andysarmoury]

Hi I picked this 20mm Hispano up today and would i be right in thinking its a standard ball round its headstamp is B.M.A.R.C 20mm MkI Z and dated 1939 do anybody know who made it please.
Regards
Andy

 

[siegfreid]

British Manufacturing & Research Company probably . I think they were based in Lincolnshire .

 

[Andysarmoury]

Thanks Mike that sounds about right and just checked the annulus and its purple so must be ball.
Chers
Andy

 

[Tony Williams]

British Manufacturing & Research Company probably . I think they were based in Lincolnshire .

Yes, in Grantham. BMARCo was the British subsidiary of Hispano Suiza, and was specifically set up in the late 1930s to manufacture the French Hispano HS.404 for the RAF.

 

[hicky1300]

Andy - That`s definitely a ball projectile.

 

[Andysarmoury]

Thanks T for confirming that, iam going to start collecting them i think as they are a nice looking round, do you know how many different ones were made?
Cheers
Andy

 

[hicky1300]

Hi Andy
I have tried to get as many different WWII Headstamp ones that I can and I think I have about 10 or 12 so far!! So possibly a bit of a `how longs a piece of string` question!!
I like these and Oerlikon 20mm`s.
I hope over summer to sort a bit more of mine out & hang them in belted links.
Regards

 

[Andysarmoury]

Hi T, i bet there are quite a few different ones but i ment and i should have said like ball, Ap
Cheers
Andy

 

[hicky1300]

Sorry Andy. I just thought that as it sort of started as a headstamp questiobn that was it!! LOL
Otherwise yes quite a few variants on projectiles. HE, Ball, AP, HET, HETSD etc!

 

[peashooter]

Andy do you have the 20mm small arms booklet

Richard.

 

[Andysarmoury]

Thanks T, and richard i don't have much at all at the moment as just started out collecting these.
Cheers
Andy

 

[Falcon]

Hi Andy
I hope over summer to sort a bit more of mine out & hang them in belted links.
Regards

The links for these are actually a lot rarer than the cases.