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[Peter Laidler]

I don't really know what sort it was. To be honest, they all look the same to me but it had a Rolls Royce engine because I kept one of the damaged rocker covers for ages. The ammo was all 1941. The tracer was still quite accurate but the actual trace wouldn't ignite regularly and we fired some of the AP at a 'falling plate' target (steel plates made from armour) and they wouldn't penetrate as any AP usually would.

As for the incendiary.......... I broke one up and set fire to the incendiary compound. It fired up alright but kept burning for a while. I tried to blow it out........ BIG mistake. It just erupted into a ball of fire right before my eyes!!!!!!!

We had a short saying in the Armourers world...... Well, we had a few actually, most not printable. It was that Armourers NEVER deal with ammo and Ammo Technicians NEVER deal with Small Arms

[browningautorifle]

cool dark and dry place for 70 years.......... underground

This wouldn't have been in Burma would it? Maybe that's why they can't find those Spits'...Peter already has them...

[Peter Laidler]

I think that my £20 bet to any UK Military charity if that clown found anything relating to Spitfires in Burma must have put him off BAR. He - or the trail of pure hogwash seems to have died a natural death recently. He should have spoken to JM before he embarked on spending his dosh out there!

[RobD]

I think he spent mainly someone else's dosh. The legendary great haul of the 20th century was that of Christian Cranmer (IMA in USA) who bought the King of Nepal's arsenal locks, stocks and barrels. The likes of that is never going to happen again.