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[Ravenhook]

Can anyone please identify this shell, my neighbour cleaned out her bathroom?!? prior to new carpets being laid...did I wan't it. :woohoo:

 

[Ravenhook]

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[spotter]

The green paint remnants indicate smoke round,,but other than that ive no idea,i have seen these before when on a clearance job when i first started but cannot remember what they are from..be interested myself to know what they are

 

[AndyD]

105mm base eject smoke/illum perhaps?

 

[Ravenhook]

Thanks, guys...yup found something similar on specialist auctions.
105mm smoke base ejection round.
Full story, came out of a tank target on salisbury plain and was used as a door stop.
Funny old world :laugh:

 

[HarryG]

Hi
Projectile looks like the 105mm FD L45 Smoke BE

 

[spotter]

Hello Harry,,are these an older type 105 as they are different to the ones we normally find,which dont have the large aluminum ? front end

 

[HarryG]

Hi Spotter
The ones without the alloy front end may be 105mm HOW

 

[spotter]

thanks harry

 

[spotter]

Thanks to Harrys id,ive managed to find this image,,

 

[Ravenhook]

Thanks Harry and Thanks Spotter for the picture.
L92 nose cone, I will look for a cutaway diagram, I'm sure there must be some bits of its workings still in the existing part.
Funny what people keep in their bathrooms!