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Unknown sabotage incendiary devises
- Thread starter Antoon
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Found that : https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/38732
Thanks for the link, so German sabotage material.
Afternoon all
Antoon, you do indeed have a drawing by Laurence Fish, but these two items are British Incendiaries, namely Incendiary Block Mk I and Mk II.
I attach a couple of period photographs of these items.
Also please see a couple of pages from the Australian SRD Technical Handbook which is a great reference for British sabotage stores. I apologise for the print quality, but it is the best I have.
Laurence Fish did a lot of drawings for Victor Rothschild for various reports culminating in the publication of Enemy Sabotage Equipment (Identification) May 1945 & Amendments as a guide to recovered material. The Germans, however sensibly redeployed a great deal of captured British sabotage material (Estimated at 150 Tonnes in Englandspiel alone) back against Great Britain, hence Fish ended up drawing a great number of items that were actually designed and manufactured in England as well as Axis devices.
I hope this helps a bit, and would welcome any additional information if available. I have never seen one, even in the best collections, and I presume that due to the celluloid casing there will be few surviving examples as the celluloid breaks down, but you never know.
Cheers
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Antoon, you do indeed have a drawing by Laurence Fish, but these two items are British Incendiaries, namely Incendiary Block Mk I and Mk II.
I attach a couple of period photographs of these items.
Also please see a couple of pages from the Australian SRD Technical Handbook which is a great reference for British sabotage stores. I apologise for the print quality, but it is the best I have.
Laurence Fish did a lot of drawings for Victor Rothschild for various reports culminating in the publication of Enemy Sabotage Equipment (Identification) May 1945 & Amendments as a guide to recovered material. The Germans, however sensibly redeployed a great deal of captured British sabotage material (Estimated at 150 Tonnes in Englandspiel alone) back against Great Britain, hence Fish ended up drawing a great number of items that were actually designed and manufactured in England as well as Axis devices.
I hope this helps a bit, and would welcome any additional information if available. I have never seen one, even in the best collections, and I presume that due to the celluloid casing there will be few surviving examples as the celluloid breaks down, but you never know.
Cheers
Switch
A better quality SRD Technical Handbook is available on NAA : https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=235350
Is it possible to get archive materials in internet? I see in different articles noticed, that archive published great materials, but how to see it on archive page?
Can't say for sure but is seems it's there : https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11249121
Here is the one on the left.
