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Spanish manufacturer: POM

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Hoeksel

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Hi all,

Can anybody tell me who "P O M" is? The maker is on a 1937 dated Spanish primer for a 75 mm gun. The case is made by Trubia.
 
PO is used for the grenades designed at the 40s. If the case is Trubia and the markings POM... POM is Plsticas OraMil, but maybe that POM is not for it.
 
@Grenademan2005: do you know for what gun the 75x259 case is? I think a Schneider mountaingun M1906, but I can not find any reference. And thanks for the clarification! I found PO myself, was not sure about POM.
 
I have no idea, at our CW were used all kind of guns from a lot of different countries, and Im not an expert in that war. Maybe some pictures of the case will help because we have in the forum a real expert and collector of that war.
 
A comparable case is on the spanish website http://www.municion.org/Estopin/Estopin.htm with the text "Estopn de percusin a rosca con tres muescas semicirculares para el til de desenroscar. Montado en disparos de artillera de 75 mm. En este caso recarga una vaina de la fbrica de Trubia fechada en 1922". The case dimensions are 75x259R88, typically you see old (WW1 period) cases made by Trubia (what does FF de Trubia mean??) and younger primers dated 1935 and later by POM. I'd like to know the gun accompanying this case.
 

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P.O. was a acronym of "Plasticas Oramil" indeed, but POM was a hand grenade's code not a mark's acronym, exactly was called P.O.-M-1, but military manual quotes POM1, so there are errors of interpretation.

P.O.-M-1 was a variant of the P.O.-III (P.O.3, not P.O.111) added a delay and "AWA" fuze, and created for export.

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I don't know the date of birth of Plasticas Oramil, but I don't think it was before 1937. The P.O. Inc.'s first reference patent is since 1945 with the creation of the PO-I, invented by Jose L. Amilibia.

Sorry for my bad english.
 
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