Strange PIAT fuze

[MissingSomething]

Just got this off of Ebay in Australia. Just compairing it with the other fuzes I have.. definately different. Smaller container, fuze is a different size.... anyone ever seen anything like this... why is it so different...

The Australian fuze is far right:

 

[MissingSomething]

 

[siegfreid]

Craig. They are transport or drill fuzes , I think . PIAT fuze carriers came in several different sizes . Mike

 

[spotter]

Looks to me like the no425 Percussion fuze used with the piat,as well as the longer no426 DA and Percussion

Drill version as pointed out by Siegfreid

 

[TimG]

MI/C - McKinnon Industries, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada. From 1929 was a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation, Detroit. USA - During WWII there is very little they didn't make for the war effort.

S within hexagon - Schultz Die casting company (Wallaceburg, Ontario)? Canada

ICI/W - ICI Ltd, Westquarter, Glasgow, UK - ICI's detonator factory

TimG

 

[MissingSomething]

Thanks guys... I didn't realize there was a shorter version of the fuze. There must be a different "cap" to go on the bombs themselves to accommodate the shorter fuze?

 

[siegfreid]

Yes , some were screw on & some a bayonet fixing .

 

[millsbomber]

Thats a rare one for this part of the world, never seen container marked drill and painted blue, well done, here are all the examples i have left, tin fuse container and 2 other types with various fuses,,,,,,, Dave

 

[Bonnex]

Fuze No 426



For those interested in original paperwork this is a scan of the Ministry of Supply order placed on MD1 (Winston Churchill's Toyshop) for half a million 426 fuzes. MD1 designed and 'manufactured' the 426. I say manufactured but actually many companies were involved in the making of the parts that made up the fuze.

The 'free issue' to ICI would have been for filling.