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Australian Museum Find

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Bonnex

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These objects were found in a museum collection by our Australian friends. They have requested an ID. Since the objects are grenade shaped I have put the request for info in this subject category.

The photograph is all we have to go on at the moment.

Thanks


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looks like a carburetor of one of the horrible machines i get to work on now a days,,,,, Dave
 
Looks like a beautifully made booby trap (wire linked). Probably a prototype?? Are those shrapnel balls in there?

John
 
Millsman said:
Looks like a beautifully made booby trap (wire linked). Probably a prototype?? Are those shrapnel balls in there?

John
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John,

Thanks. I have no other information but I will ask about the balls. There just doesn't seem to be enough space for energetic material for this to be anything other than an inert object and maybe non-military. Maybe it is something you wind up and it vibrates but I cannot imagine what you would use it for. I think it was found at Linlithgow, the home of weapons manufacture which presumably adds a likely military flavour.
 
Norm,
With 30years of recovering souvenier EO in Oz, never encountered anything like this. Lithgow Smalls Arms produced all sorts of things other than ordnance. The factory was kept operating to maintain engineering skills building anything they could sell off.
Aside from you comment it also looks way too heavy for a grenade. and way too many moving parts.
Pete ato(as)
 
Pete,

Thanks. I hope the chaps at Lithgow find some sort of production register with this contraption listed. Seemingly we might be buying rifles from there before too long.
 
The boss of weapons production is a good friend of mine.. was my one of my Sgt AT's once, then a CAPT, now VP.. likes his beer. His old man was a UK ATO, also a good friend of mine
P
 
Hydraulic accumulator. Maybe there's a fitting on the backside or bottom. A bit more complex(internally) than the norm. Or, somebody just goofin' around in the shop one day and...


UPDATE

Here's a link to some pics: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q...=QBIR&pq=hydralic+accumulator&sc=0-0&sp=-1&sk=

After looking through there and a couple of other sources, I'm now leaning towards it being a hydraulic switch vs accumulator. Could be pneumatic, as well.
 
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