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[Radek]

I have recieved mills box. Just added bars and I have to made new lid.
Mills are litle bit renovated, I have to add plugs and levers.
The last one is cuted.

 

[Millsman]

Enjoy!

John

 

[Radek]

Thank you ;-)

 

[Millsman]

The cutaway looks to have been a British Bath Co (BBC) made grenade and originally filled at the Royal Ordnance Factory at Patricroft. WW2 vintage.

John

 

[Snufkin]

...and originally filled at the Royal Ordnance Factory at Patricroft...

John

John, how do you come up with that ?



Tom.

 

[roller63]

Looks like the cutaway has a Mk 2 base plug and gascheck ?

 

[Millsman]

John, how do you come up with that ?

Tom.

I thought the filler had ROFP on it but on closer examination it may be ADP. So I am probably wrong.

Do you know where BBC grenades were filled?

John

 

[Burney Davis]

Wouldn't the hole in the side indicate this was at one time a drill grenade?

 

[Snufkin]

The holes drilled in the body might suggest it was a training grenade and never filled. EDIT: As Darrel has pointed out while I was constructing my post...

As Tony says, it has a MkII base plug and gas check, so a reasonable chance it is one of 57,500 Drill No.36 supplied by BBC (from defective castings) in 1944 and furnished with steel base plugs from Southern Engineering Group (SEG), Brighton.



Tom.