Body marking F&S ?

[Petel]

Hello again.
Have a 36M Mk1 here, that is what is marked on the base plug and the body style seems right.
However, the body has the mark " F&S " on the second segment below the filler plug, where a Kendrick would have its letter " K ". There are no decernable marks under the lever.

Have been to the "Millsgrenade" website and have identified the lever, base and filler plugs but not the body marking.
Has anyone come across the " F&S " mark before please ?

Thanks again,
Pete.

 

[Bonnex]

Possibly Forrest and Sym, Manchester.

 

[Snufkin]

Possibly Forrest and Sym, Manchester.

Forrest and Sym is by far the most likely maker, in which case the body is WWI - or at least they don't appear on the post 1939 contract listings. If the base plug is actually marked 36M MkI then I'd expect it to be from a WWII era No.36 - there should be a date mark on it.


Tom.

 

[Petel]

Thank you Tom.
The base plug is marked " No 36M Mk1 " has " 40 " in a circle " and has "REVO" in an oval, which I take to be Revo Electrical of London.

The lever is marked TA&S, which I take to be Tomas Adshead and Sons.

Be it entirely genuine or not, it is still the pride of my small collection of grenades.

Many thanks
Pete.

 

[Snufkin]

The components are certainly genuine and there are various legitimate reasons why parts from different manufacturers from WWII can be found together on a WWI body. Such reasons include the training and instruction of regular and TA soldiers, combined with significant numbers of No.36 bodies left over from WWI, where the condition of the centrepieces had condemned the grenades in the mid-late 1930s. (And that's before invoking the national obsession for attributing everything to having been used at some stage by the Home Guard.)




Tom.