Great Post Card on ebay various British Bombs WW1

[Gspragge]

The writing claims these to be British --

 

[dano1917]

Great card Gordon, there are a lot of WW1 ordnance post cards. Just finished watching All Quiet On The Western Front on TCM (the first one). I will add some cards to this post when I get my photo skills sharpened....Dano

 

[Dreamk]

Only the second from the left is British - the first and fourth are French - the one on the right is German

 

[dano1917]

Thanks for that summation. The WW1 projectiles of different countries can be so similar that it is just hard to tell. For instance the projectile on the far right resembles a French pneumatic mortar sans the fins! There certainly is a mishmash of different ordnance from the WW1 period. I have always thought that a fine collection could be made of WW1 postcards depicting ordnance....................Dano

 

[Dreamk]

Here you'll find a description (including photos) of ww1 French bombs and "obus empennes" (artillery shells with added fins, used as bombs from 1915 to 1917)
http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.net/pages1418/aviation-1914-1918/bombes-explosives-sujet_2347_1.htm
and here a schema of these bombs
http://imageshack.us/a/img850/2708/frenchbombs.jpg

 

[Gspragge]

Here is another post card he has on ebay now.

 

[Dreamk]

Left to Right: British HE Hale 20lbs, British HE RFC 230lbs light case MkI without the fins, British HE Cooper 20lbs, German PuW 12kg

 

[teller67]

Hello to all, the bomb on the far right in the first picture is a 10 kg or 20 kg austrian Carbonit bomb. The doubt is in the fact that I have no way to determine the size of the bomb in the postcard.

 

[Dreamk]

the bomb on the far right in the first picture is a 10 kg or 20 kg austrian Carbonit bomb. The doubt is in the fact that I have no way to determine the size of the bomb in the postcard.

Carbonit AG was a German company, not an Austro-Hungarian one, though its bombs, together with the ones produced in Germany by Wollersdorf (private) and PuW (state) factories, were used by the K.u.K. aside the locally produced Skoda bombs.
You have an element of comparison for size in your picture: the diameter of the French bomb besides the Carbonit is 80mm, and of the British 16lb Bomb (second from the left) is 5" (127mm) while the largest diameter of the 10kg Carbonit was 174mm and of the 20kg Carbonit 206mm. Conclusion: 20kg Carbonit