Fleebay has a "No4 Accrument" listed. What is this? What's it good for, is it collectible? Appears to me to be some kind of Grenade Launcher attachment?
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Fleebay has a "No4 Accrument" listed. What is this? What's it good for, is it collectible? Appears to me to be some kind of Grenade Launcher attachment?
It's a spigot projector for the Energa shaped charge a/t rifle grenade. Launchers of this type were used by several countries and it is well to be sure what rifle it is intended for. In this case, it does appear to be a No.4 one. I don't know where he gets this 'accrument' word from.
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Accrument is a word that does not send the flee bay computers into hysterics and get you banned, unlike words like magazine, trigger, trigger guard, grenade launcher and others...
He probably meant to say acoutrement.
Good on the seller for having a go at putting something like this on the site. Did it last the week incidentally?
As a matter of interest, these are banned in the UK as grenade launchers as defined in law! (yes...., I know...) whereas the old cup discharger is a grey area and some Police Forces, sensibly, wouldn't bother with them.
There is a training film for these items. The film was shown to Enfield apprentices as a bit of light relief. It depicted a soldier going through the drill. At the appropriate time, he indicated the firing device, his trigger finger, by showing it, pointing upwards towards the camera, an action that had 100 young men peeing themselves with laughter and rolling on the floor. The Apprentice Supervisor was not amused and we all got a bollocking - a habit he continues to this day (at 80plus years of age) at our annual reunions.
I've said it a zillion times but the leather cases for these launchers come up on that auction site too. And at £13, they're scarce and good value too
Mr LaidlerQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
In American English one billion is written 1,000,000,000 (one thousand million) BUT in British English one billion is written 1,000,000,000,000 (one million million)
If you did tell us a Zillion times to buy the leather case, would that be the British Zillion or the American Zillion, at 13 pounds each I do not want to make any math errors in U.S. currency conversion i.e., $20.60, $206.00 or $206,000.00.
I would hate to come up a half a yard short of a full snort.
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The word he wuz looking for is "accretion" (something added on to something else).
Ah, yes Ed........... I hope that nobody got caught short and purchased a zillion - as in US zillions. Hopefully, they just purchased a UK zillion and saved themselves a., er, lot of money!
Kind regards from warm but a bit miserable Abingdon in Oxfordshire
... `tis where they threw me out of an aeroplane ... IN FLIGHT!Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
:surrender::surrender::surrender::surrender:
I know I've been overseas for a long time, so when did Abingdon move from Berkshire to Oxfordshire. Pickfords must have made a bomb.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
If you take a close look at the mechanism that attaches this over the rifles bayonet lug, isn't it more than slightly like that muzzle brake that Numrich and Pacific leather used to sell a few years back. In fact its exactly what the muzzle brake uses/d and that front tube of the launcher looks suspiciously like it might be convertible into such a useable piece of kit by some handy inventor.
Ah,. yes! I did my parachute training at Abingdon too. The l.ast course to use |Beverleys but one crashed so we were the first to use the 'new' Hercules. It changed from Abingdon, Berkshire to Abingdon Oxfordshire in the late 70's I believe. Apparently it's all to do with..............., well, whatever it is, I don't understand it. My Mum lives in Shrivenham, Berkshire that is now Wiltshire. She doesn't understand it either so as rar as she's concerned, it's still Berkshire!
Anyway, greeting today from dark and overcast Warminster that's still in Wiltshire
That'll be the infamous Heath-Walker local government reforms of 1973, which abolished many counties, moved the boundaries of others, and created several new ones.
Makes me wonder if Heath Walker is any relation to Heath Robinson.
I was too young at the time to know what all the fuss was about, but I remember my mam and dad were mightilly ****ed off when Yorkshire lost it's ridings, West Riding, North Riding and East Riding and became West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire. What was the old East Riding became North Humberside. After 30 odd years we've now got back what was the East Riding, but it's now called East Yorkshire.
A riding is an old term for anything divided in to 3 not necessarily equal parts.
No, RJWT32 is right, and I am sure the seller intended to write accouterment (or accoutrement), meaning an accessory. In arms collecting, it means a device that accompanies a weapon but is not part of it, excepting ammunition. Cartridge belts, bayonets, slings, cleaning rods, etc. fall into that category, but items like helmets and uniforms do not as they are not accessories to a weapon.
Jim
Correct me if I am wrong, but in my Yankee understanding, I thought a "riding" was an area that could be covered by what Americans would call a circuit court, in other words, the area that a judge and his staff could conveniently cover ("ride around") by coach or horseback. Not many counties were as large or as rugged as Yorkshire, which is why it was divided.
Jim
Some one once told me that a riding was so called because it was the distance one could ride on a horse in one day. I was told the proper meaning by an English teacher. That's why the ridings are all different sizes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim K
The word riding comes from the old Norse word thridjungr, which over the years has been corrupted to riding via thriding and triding, it means "a third part".
And just to keep it on topic, the town of Maltby was in the West riding and is famous on this board for being the site of ROFM, which made No4 rfles.