Mills containers?

[Petel]

Hello.
Can anyone please advise, if Mills grenades were at any time, issued singly in some sort of transport/storage container? If so, what form did this container take?

I am aware that they were issued in multiples in wooden crates and that single training/cutaway examples could be found in cardboard boxes.

Thank you.
Pete.

 

[Bonnex]

Hello.
Can anyone please advise, if Mills grenades were at any time, issued singly in some sort of transport/storage container? If so, what form did this container take?
Thank you.
Pete.

There was a Naval use of the No 36 Grenade with the Holman Projector. Basically came in a Tin Plate can slightly domed with a long satety pin fitted to the No 36 which protruded from the can. Two marks. There should be thread on this site on this can.

See http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/36518-No-36-grenade-accessories

Other containers used for single grenades were rather more in the clandestine business and not service stores.

 

[Petel]

Many thanks to Bonnex, for your replies to my two questions.

Have now seen, on this forum, three Mills and a tin for the detonators, in a heavy guage cardboard tube. This was apparently found in Iraq and may date from the 1950's.

Would still be interested to hear if any Mills were issued in individual containers, clandestine or otherwise.
Many thanks
Petel.

 

[gothica7]

Here is a Mills container from the early 1970s, probably not official though. Its what the last No 36s made were stored in when they were placed in the Emergency War Reserve. They were stored 2 to a tin and all the grens were in sealed individual plastic bags with no filler screw. They were unfilled and the filler hole was taped over.
The metal tins were originally for ejector seat firing cartridges. The box was an old ammo box, possibly of WW2 vintage. 16 grens were stored in each box.

Andy

 

[Petel]

Very many thanks to you Andy for this information and the pictures.
Your input is much appreciated.
Regards, Pete.

 

[gothica7]

My pleasure Pete,

here is a pic of the tin and a bagged gren together so that you can see the scale.

Andy

 

[Snufkin]

Have now seen, on this forum, three Mills and a tin for the detonators, in a heavy guage cardboard tube. This was apparently found in Iraq and may date from the 1950's.

Four cardboard tubes, each with three No.36 and a tin of three igniter sets, were packed in a G70 metal box. This was the successor to the old G36 (and previously venerable G5) box of 12 Mills and tin of igniters. Image of G70 attached (source courtesy of Bonnex), although I was convinced there was a thread with this elsewhere on the forum.

I have never encountered evidence of a container for single No.36 grenades along the lines of the cardboard transit canister used for the American MkII.


Tom.

 

[Petel]

Many thanks again Tom.
There is another thread showing three 36's and a tin of detonators in a cardboard tube but I cannot find it again now.
It does not mention that there may have been four tubes together in a container.

Much appreciated.
Pete.

 

[hangarman]

I have a G70 made in 1970 and filled in '71. Am looking for the tubes to go with it if anyone has any spare(not worried about the dates)
Cheers
Hangarman