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British Flare
- Thread starter jvollenberg
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I don't have any measurements ... all I have is what you see.
Joe
Joe
I hope this will confuse everybody about the differences in the line-thrower cartridges.The original cartridges seem to be cream card with a brass base and patent wad No.271390. These are 32mm long and the same length as the brass cases.
Later red tins have the red wad brass cases with 64 or 65 on the base. This seems to be the Lot number rather than the year. Your Jan 1966 label has 64 on the cartridge bases.
The load seems to be 30 gr. My P.A.C. round is 60gr so a heavier load. See my old thread and tin. It has the grey wad. Never seen a green wad.
The latest aluminium cases are in foam boxes of 5 rounds with 4 languages on the label and red wads. They are only 23.5mm long and 25gr loads.
My photos.
ICI 10-44 brass case black wad.
P.A.C. only 60gr load brass case and grey wad. Too heavy for line-throwers.
Aluminium red wad line-thrower . L 8 is lot number.
Original Schermuly line-thrower with card case.
Brass 25gr line-thrower with red wad.
I have only seen black, red and the original wads on line-thrower cartridges.
I have the line-thrower guns too in 3 calibres but did not think they were ever used as flare guns but they could fire flares too as they are converted pistols with long barrels fitted.
Hi Ron, I can't find reference to standard flares being in the line throwing gun case with the gun and tin of carts,but was offered some years ago. As you say its just a standard pistol with barrel extension. As for the various loadings and wads, the obvious answer to me would be the distance to throw the line, weight of line(modern cordage being much lighter and stronger), wind strength etc requiring a different load. Just my thoughts. Perhaps the pistol handbook would help?
Intresting showing a round tin to hold the throwing rope, the one i fired has a flat square tin/box
Interesting thread. I've only seen red and green that I knew to be launching cartridges.
This book mentions line, antenna, flares and grappling hooks that they made. There are very few specific pics of devices. It's too much to summarize or copy on my phone but here is a pic of their display table from their "First 60 Years" celebration.
This book mentions line, antenna, flares and grappling hooks that they made. There are very few specific pics of devices. It's too much to summarize or copy on my phone but here is a pic of their display table from their "First 60 Years" celebration.
I'm not sure if it's available digitally. A friend found this and thought it would make a nice birthday present several years ago.