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4 x WW1 Grenades To Astound The Collector !
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Welsh Berry, Mills Cylindrical, Gamage and a very interesting one sometimes attributed to Humphris as his 'home wrecker' but I think this is a mistake. I don't have an alternative explanation for the one on the right but Col King of SOE made a larger design of this slab grenade in WW2 - it didn't function too well.
Just got back from the hospital after my suspected heart attack. Phew. I'm all right now that you told me this is from the archives!
John
Norman, I take it that the Gamage name is the same as in the A W Gamage Ltd (Leach) bombthrower/catapult? Was the bomb shown designed as ammunition for the thrower? If so, do you know if Claude Leach had a hand in that as well, or was he just the launcher specialist?
Tom.
Tom a couple of photographs showing the hand grenade and its innards. The business part is just a cylinder of explosive that functions when it slides within the outer tube and comes into contact with the striker in the cap. There were two designs. I am not sure who came up with this idea, Neither Leach nor Gammage have patents on it as far as I can see. The sliding charge features in the MacFarlane Rifle Grenade of 1916.
Not connected with the bomb thrower.
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paul the grenade
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fantastic stuff. cheers for sharing the picture mike.
paul.
paul.