OK here's your coronavirus stir crazy Sunday chardonnay challenge.
What are these?
sorry, Identification
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OK here's your coronavirus stir crazy Sunday chardonnay challenge.
What are these?
sorry, Identification
Line throwers?
Smoke discharger?Quote:
Originally Posted by RobD
Picture 3 is :-
And 2 is a grenade launcher, but I'm no sure on one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan de Enfield
Boba Fett blasters?
Post four on vehicles are all 4 inch smoke dischargers.
This was the final resting place for a great number Canadian Ross rifles.
As to the original pictures, the first one appears to fit onto something so I would venture a guess as a smoke discharger same as with No.3 with No.2 possibly being a Mills bomb or VB launcher.
Or, a wookie blaster from Star Wars....
I should add I didn't know what any of them were when I posted!
What a handheld or shoulder controlled handful that would be. Fire a shot, get up off the ground, reload...Quote:
Originally Posted by Warren
The first photo is quite likely to be Captain Worzal Gummidge of the Royal Army Medical Corps and his newly invented device for measuring temperature of suspected Spanish flu victims from 6 feet away. Positive results could be treated with the second barrel, just above the big one. Legend has it that Captain Gummidge's device and his service were short lived past this photo.
I think he then moved on to the props department for the Star Wars films.........
Pic #1 well having fired allot of H/Guns the trigger position of that piece what ever it is would be rather interesting I think the selection process for being issued to you was either index finger had to be 7" or more in length as the trigger sits above allot more that a normal H/G. Decent size bore on the barrel as well may have been a good handful when discharged. Invented by the same person that designed the Great Panjandrum Wheel..........in WWII
Postcript ~ I just learnt its Bobba Fett in disguise being retasked to hunt Ford Prefect in Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy!
Ron, to cite a well known supernatural idiom "Don't cross the streams!" I feel a can of worms has been opened and upended... :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by CINDERS
:madsmile: :lol: I had to use my Babel Fish to translate it from the message sent to me by Marvin!
First photo. That item hanging from the sling was used to ensure the tot of issue rum was measured correctly and indicated how much it was watered down.:)
The Martini conversion looks more like an M79 than an M79 does!
I wonder if anybody involved in the Niblick program in the 1960's ever saw that and thought they could put a modern twist on it?
Maybe a Flare gun for Large Offensives
Or Naval Signal Gun, it is hanging upside down.
Buggar the flare gun I want my shot of rum and the smoke canister smoke to hide in once I get the rum:D:D
The Martini looks like a WW1 era M79 blooper to me.........or smoke discharger.
No 2 looks like a Blanch-Chevallier grenade launcher
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
You must have had that at "Restaurant at the end of the Universe" englishman ca here we go.......................
OK, so we know No 2 is Blanch-Chevallier grenade launcher - Arms of the First World War - Royal Armouries collections
and No 3 is the igniter for a a 4" smoke discharger
Do we think No 1 is a photoshop fake?
Rob
Maybe? Is sure is weird and looks hard to get a grip on when using it.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobD
Photo 1: Funny that Rob; that's precisely what was crossing my mind last night after I'd finished racking my brains.
Brilliant, Daan, loved it, and well played Bindi! :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by Daan Kemp
No.1 A hand held grenade launcher invented by Sir Samual Cleland Davidson who founded the Sirocco works in Belfast. (sorry, we obviously read some of the same forums other than this one)