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Marking on base of British Projectile

jvollenberg

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Looking for information on this marking found on the base of a 25-Pounder.

Thanks,

Joe
 

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A Wyndham Hewitt plant, part of Dawnay Day & Co. Ltd - hence the DD monogram. Wyndham Hewitt was an engineering company that had formed from a merger of Lanchester Motors and a company called Close Brothers in 1936. It had operations in Leeds, Sheffield, and Wigan.



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