That's a great Video Vince. That explains it all. Had to see it twice but he forgot to explain how noise - as in Db - isn't a regular linear effect but more sumfink else........
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That's a great Video Vince. That explains it all. Had to see it twice but he forgot to explain how noise - as in Db - isn't a regular linear effect but more sumfink else........
No mention of a Bakers dozen ?
...we could move on to the evident advantages of driving on the left (and how only the most advanced societies refused to accept the dictates of the miniscule French dictator). :thup::thup:
I always thought it was to load the pan of a Lewis gun, and have one left over for the chamber. :lol:
Maybe it was so they could load up a bunch of their eight round magazines to be ready for the up and over. Wait! They only have one magazine. Oh, and it is a ten rounder. What the......? I'm at least half Scotch-Irish, so this is said in good humor. I only own three .303 rifles. --Cheers
There are 1,008 farthings to the Guinea. Why would one need to decimalise?
Since ammo was seldom used directly from the box, but instead loaded into stripper clips (chargers), mags or whatever, it really makes no difference how many a box contained. Of course if your theory is that they were being loaded into the 5-round stripper clips, I can see where you might throw in a few extra for the ones that soldiers dropped into the mud fumbling in the trenches (just kidding). Since the previously used military round (577/450) was packed in packs of either 5 or 10, I can't see where the Brits were hooked on the number 12. However I've got .303 loaded by a minimum of 8 countries and they all are magically 48 round boxes.....except for the 20-round Winchester white boxes of the 1980s supplied as aid to the Afghans during the Soviet incursion.
I'm inclined to go for the Lewis gun explanation. We were always told a similar story in the cadets. 47 to load the drum with a spare to use on the gas regulator, or whatever drill the Lewis pamphlet said required the use of a round as a tool.
This is why they packed .303, 48 to the box !....................
Lewis gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lewis gun utilised two drum magazines, one holding 47 rounds, the other 97..."Quote from text"
Unfortunately that's already been suggested. I roar at that explanation, after being in the army my whole life I know they don't do things that way. For all they care ammo can be issued in a bucket with a lid.