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So at the pawn shop where I work we got in this box, im pretty sure its military. All i know is that its galvanized steel and smells old when you open it. There is also a white powder on the inside. The top has a rotating latch and a pretty heft rubber seal. So does anyone know anything about this?
also the letters on the top i believe are AC-PJHVA, i tried googling that and nothing came up
I think you'll find it's a reusable container. The white powder is just an oxidization. They came with various things in them, the frame inside would be the special part. We had to return them...
We used to have something very similar but brown coloured that the artillery bag charges used to come in and also detonator fuzes as used by the pioneer platoon. They were stackable and flashproof too. The handle bit used to wind in and push the prongs out into the corners to lock it and that would draw the lid down to make the tight seal. Like BAR says, they had to be returned but were useless for anything else!
Thanks guys. Peter, that sounds exactly like the same locking mechanism that mine has on it. Do you think its worth anything?
It IS the same mech. They also made a short stumpy box that was...15" square and 24" tall that we had around... You'd have to put it on Ebay and see. Someone might need it.Quote:
Originally Posted by swyman3269
That is a 40mm Bofors ammo can. Ammo came four to a clip, four clips to the can. I have loaded many cans like on light cruisers during WWII.
Yes! That even makes sense. We still had QF Bofors around several years ago for air defence in Germany and the school in Gagetown NB.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cosine26
Correct me if I am wrong but don't we still use the 40 Bofors on the MCDVs?Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
They were used on the Gunships in Nam.
I wonder when the Canadian and UK MIlitary stopped using 40mm Bofors (we called them 40/70's). I remember that the apprentice Gun Fitters at Carlisle were trained on the radar controlled bofors and they were in service until.............
Yes, armed with one. But we don't have them in the other roles anymore...So Peter, we still have them. There would be a gun you worked on from your earliest apprenticeship and still could be pinching fingers in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eaglelord17
The Bofors were a Gun Fitters job, The Armourers didn't touch them except that in our second year we spent a week or so (?) looking at the work of the other apprentices trades being taught there. In addition to the Gun Fitters and Armourers there were vehicle mechs. and Instrument techs.
Incidentally, Borors barrels and other gun parts were made in a secret woodland factory at Tubney, about 3 miles from here. It was sort of laying derelict for many years and the site was recently developed as a small hi-tech site, named appropriately Bofors Park. When they were developing the site they found that some of the perimiter supports fences were made from old barrel lengths. Many years ago I went to a beautiful little thatched country cottage, also in Tubney and recognised a 3" or so machined-off length of 40mm Bofors barrel, complete with rifling being used as a back door stop. The bloke was amazed that I recognised it and it did indeed come from the factory where his dad - or mum - worked as a wartime machinist