40 Lb Bomb Demo

[Madbomber31]

Dos any one have some info on this one thanks Mad.

Cheers Mad B)

 

[Madbomber31]

 

[RichardB]

Mad,
Looks very much like a WW2 flying dustbin....290mm P) pillbox buster.
As used in Churchill AVRE's spigot mortar

I think spotter has a load of pics...he usually does :-}

Rich

 

[RichardB]

I could of course be totally wrong...i wouldnt be the first time.
Rich

Figured i needed to cover my arse...so i dont look daft again

 

[Madbomber31]

Your right Rich it is.

Cheers Mad :laugh: :woohoo:

 

[Quatermass]

 

[spotter]

 

[Madbomber31]

Nice Data Spotter :woohoo: do have any more like that?

Cheers Mad :woohoo:

 

[spotter]

Not on this ,we were finding the remains of these ,and at first it was thought they were mines ,it took me a year to finally find out what they were,,attatched pic shows them as we found them,they use the same propelling cartridge as the blacker bombard and the spigots are identicle

 

[spotter]

This shows the projector a 290mm Petard Mortar on a AVRE
Range approx 137 meters
Used for destroying obstacles and bunkers

 

[Quatermass]

290mm Petard mortar

Quatermass

 

[spotter]

Theres lots of stuff showing pictures of the rounds and projector/mortar but little in the way of technical drawings

 

[Madbomber31]

Nice Pics guys.

Mad

 

[DAZ REICH]

Heres what fired it

 

[Antoon]

They mention diameter 290 mm, but who can do a measurement. I think the diameter of the bomb is around 230 mm.

Greetings - Antoon

 

[pzgr40]

Ask Joop from MTM CE , he has one.
Regards, DJH

 

[RichardB]

Hi Antoon,

You're completely correct
Someone picked me up on it after the thread and was eventually able to find out that the diameter of the 40lb bomb was in fact 229mm.....which is surely in old imperial measurements, 9 inches.
Quite where the 290mm comes from, I Can only assume it's the length of the spigot inside the barrel?... Other than that I have no idea

Rich

 

[HarryG]

 

[Chris]

Harry was this item before in the museum in Delft I see vernielingsbom No 1

Regards,

Chris

 

[HarryG]

Hi Chris
It came as part of a collection from a boy down south of England