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Mills and the Holy Grail

Bonnex

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The thread on 'Other' concerning 'Holy Grails' showed some enthusiasm for the Mills Cylindrical. You might like to see a few other designs:

a. One and a half Rolands;

b. Likely an early Mills manufactured Roland style grenade in aluminium (sectioned) alongside the Roland sectioned;

c. Believed to be a Mills manufactured oval version of the Roland;

d. A pair of Mills Aerial Grenades (anti-Zeppelin, anti-submarine);

e. A Mills body with integral gas-check (unlikely Mills manufacture but he did consider the idea);

f. Comparison of a Roland base plug and an early No 5 base plug (I think it likely that Mills used the same profile base plug as the Roland in his earliest No 5 type grenades - after he went solo that is);

g. Mills Rifle Percussion Grenades (RPG) incomplete, one with integral gas-check for discharger;

h. Sectioned Mills RPG dreamed up as an alternative to the No 22 which was producing unwelcome prematures:

Roland.jpgMills-Roland & Roland1.JPGMillsOval.jpgMills-Aerial 1.JPGMillsIntegralGascheck.JPGMills-Roland base plug and No 5 base plug compressed.JPGMills RPGdesigns.JPGMills RPGsectioned.JPG
 
Thanks , Norman . I've suddenly come over all misty eyed . Must go & take a pill......
 
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