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[shottist]

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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[Mk VII]

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.

[RJW NZ]

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.

[Peter Laidler]

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.

[Enfieldlock]

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.

[Peter Laidler]

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

[Edward Horton]

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 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.

[villiers]

The word he wuz looking for is "accretion" (something added on to something else).

[Peter Laidler]

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

[villiers]

Kind regards from warm but a bit miserable Abingdon in Oxfordshire

... `tis where they threw me out of an aeroplane ... IN FLIGHT!