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found a chrome mills base plug at work ????
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gothica7
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Hi Al,
chromed or nickel plated grens were often used as 'drill' or training grens during WW1 and all parts were so plated including base plugs.
C/A could be Callenders Abbotts Foundry Co Ltd, Glasgow [thanks Norman]. I believe they used C/A as their mark.
Nice plug though Al, well worth keeping.
Andy
chromed or nickel plated grens were often used as 'drill' or training grens during WW1 and all parts were so plated including base plugs.
C/A could be Callenders Abbotts Foundry Co Ltd, Glasgow [thanks Norman]. I believe they used C/A as their mark.
Nice plug though Al, well worth keeping.
Andy
Callendar Abbots
Both Callendar Iron Co. Ltd, Falkirk and Abbot's Foundry Co., Falkirk supplied material for the war effort in WW1. They amalgamated in 1933 to form Callendar Abbots Iron Co. Ltd.
Callendar Abbots supplied 1,990,000 No.36 MkI between February 1940 and June 1945. From the beginning of 1943 they were one of a dozen companies selected for continuous production contracts (supplying 1,625,000 in 11 sequential batches). These figures do not include reject bodies sent to another contractor to be turned into practice and drill grenades.
Base plugs were supplied both in cast iron and mazak. CI base plugs could be rustproofed in a variety of ways, of which electroplating was one method.
Question is, is C/A (rather than plain CA) the maker's mark for Callendar Abbots? Body castings with C/A are sufficiently common to support the view that it is, and the "/" may be indicative of the Foundry having two distinct ancestors.
Anyone any other thoughts as to why C/A, or to whom else it may refer?
Tom.
Both Callendar Iron Co. Ltd, Falkirk and Abbot's Foundry Co., Falkirk supplied material for the war effort in WW1. They amalgamated in 1933 to form Callendar Abbots Iron Co. Ltd.
Callendar Abbots supplied 1,990,000 No.36 MkI between February 1940 and June 1945. From the beginning of 1943 they were one of a dozen companies selected for continuous production contracts (supplying 1,625,000 in 11 sequential batches). These figures do not include reject bodies sent to another contractor to be turned into practice and drill grenades.
Base plugs were supplied both in cast iron and mazak. CI base plugs could be rustproofed in a variety of ways, of which electroplating was one method.
Question is, is C/A (rather than plain CA) the maker's mark for Callendar Abbots? Body castings with C/A are sufficiently common to support the view that it is, and the "/" may be indicative of the Foundry having two distinct ancestors.
Anyone any other thoughts as to why C/A, or to whom else it may refer?
Tom.
Thanks for the information Tom. C/A have always been a mystery to me (Not that I've lost any sleep). I've had one of their grenades for a few years and a spare plug too. The grenade came with a cast iron plug without a date - just like Spotters, so I was unsure whether it was WW1 or WW2. Photo attached.
John
John
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