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Help identifying relic weapon/tripod parts please
Hi all
I am rarely defeated on the 'identify this rusty relic' front, but these two have me temporarily beaten. Consequently, I am seeking your assistance in identifying the two items.
The first appears to be a mount of some kind. It has a heavy duty clamp and an arm which swings out at 90 degrees to the clamp. It was found in an area that only ever gives weapon or tripod parts so I am confident it is a war relic, but just don't know what! Do you recognise it?
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This second item I thought was off something like a Vickers tripod, but again, I can't track the little devil down. Do you recognise it?
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Many thanks, in advance, for your help.
RRPG
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08-23-2015 02:16 PM
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The clamp part of the thinggy is clearly 'clamped' by a nut and bolt that goes through both arms and presumably through the part that it's clamped to. From the relative size of the rule (bloody metric......!) I estimate that the clamp fits over a SMLE nose cap and the retaining bolt clamps it through the nose cap screw. What the swinging wing thing is for is anyones guess. But that's started the ball rolling
Second thinggy. Wot about 3" mortar striker? Is the rounded striker part spring loaded, operated by a cord through the broken end of the plunger at the right hand end?
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Yes Peter. The clamp part is indeed missing the bolt, as one side of the hole in the clamp is threaded, the other isn't. I did consider if it was to mount an SMLE to a Boys, but the brackets aren't the same.
I see what you mean about it being a striker, but the rounded nose is far too big to be that. It's about 1cm (.3 inch (ish)), across. Just beneath the rounded end is a screw thread. So, my initial thought was a tripod part, (we find lots at this site), but it doesn't match anything I've seen.
Thanks for the input!
RRPG
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What about mounting the No1 rifle to a 2 pounder anti-tank gun then?
Is that a little lever to close off an opening or to lock the arm open - photo 3,4 and 5?
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Out of sheer curiosity I pulled the schematic out on the early Vickers thinking it was that, buggered if I can find anything that looks like that, unless of course it is some obscure part of the tripod. Love a challenge though!!
The Lewis bag frame is not to disimular to this one albeit its the MK111 I believe
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'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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Most of the tank crews dispensed with any sort of case catcher, especially the bagged sort, after about 3 minutes or 3 seconds on a good day. They would fill up or cause a jamb in the shute in short order. A total waste of time and effort especially as the red-hot cases were dropping through at 10x / second and to clear the bag or shute with your hands was fraught with burns. The BEST was a sheet of cardboard to act as a deflector to deflect the cases into a 24hr ration pack box that was man enough to handle all the brass from the big 50 and the 30's in the tanks and the Ferrets. That's the reason why we didn't pursue it with the L8's and L37's
Just need to elaborate...... By 24hr ration pack box I mean the large box that 10x 24hr ration packs fit into!
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As did we in the APCs. We used sandbags for a time just hooked onto the hooks, if that got full, we'd just let them go. Sometimes in the Grizzlies, they'd end up with links in the battery box and then a short or fire...quite alarming actually...
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Very interesting info gents. Many thanks
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