Cutaway French 37mm Cannon Round - HE

[Darren]

Cutaway French 37mm cannon round - HE

 

[Gspragge]

You did this or you found it. It's very well done.

 

[Darren]

You did this or you found it. It's very well done.

Thanks, I made this into a cutaway.

 

[FZG76]

A few cutaway...
Regards

 

[pzgr40]

Hi FZG 76, how did you get the info about the fillings of these shells, and do you have drawings available? I see the first one uses strips of powder inn the shellcase and has a cartboard explosives container.

 

[MINENAZ16]

Hi FZG 76, how did you get the info about the fillings of these shells, and do you have drawings available? I see the first one uses strips of powder inn the shellcase and has a cartboard explosives container.

Herewith, French documentation :

Filling : 32gr of Melinite D (melinite-dinitronaphtaline) in a cylinder made of tin-plated brass or more rarely cardboard.
With fuze Rsa33, filled NP-MN.
Case : 95mm, 35 grams of powder B37 (bundle)
or 22 grams of balistite 3.75 (bulk).

Regards

 

[pzgr40]

Thanks MINENAZ16,
some small questions;
The booster in the red rectangle, what is it build up of. Is it a cartboard instead of brass?

Regards, DJH

 

[MINENAZ16]

DJ,
I don't understand your question

 

[pzgr40]

What detonator is it? It's not the normal red copper type.

 

[Tony Williams]

A sectioned version of a different type of French 37mm HE in this group - not done by me, I wouldn't know where to begin!

http://quarryhs.co.uk/tankammo2.html

1940/1 BATTLES: TANK GUN AMMUNITION (2)​

AMENDED 7 NOVEMBER 2014​

37x94R (French 37mm Mle 1916/1918), 37x149R (French 37mm Mle 1938), 37x149R (showing sectioned HE shell), 37x249R(German 3,7cm), 37x257R (Polish wz 36 - 37mm Bofors), 37x268R (Czech 37mm vz 34/38), 40x304R (British 2pdr), 45 x 310R (Russian Mod 37), 47x193R French 47mm Mle 1935​

 

[MINENAZ16]

What detonator is it? It's not the normal red copper type.

Two pieces DJ, a red copper detonator placed in a brass cylinder screwed on the base of the fuze.

Gspragge showed everything in this picture from Bocn gallery.

Regards

 

[pzgr40]

I'm sorry , but I think I do not understand.
I was told by a Dutch collector the type om the picture below is Gruson manufacture, so German. As far as I know Germans never used the strips type powder, that's typical French. As it is a German shell (If I was told correct) I placed it on a German shellcase.
The cartboard packaging of the explosive charge in the projectile makes sense, hence the screwed in base of the projectile.
The booster cannot be of the type with the brass screwed in housing with and a red copper detonator inside, as there is no way to screw this combunation in the base of this fuze with this fuze.

Please correct me if I am wrong

Thanks in advance,
Regards, DJH

 

[MINENAZ16]

Oups, very sorry DJ, But I'm talking about French Mle 1916 shells (images 2, 3 and 4 by Fzg76) and not German 37mm shown above.