More finds from the British army dump

[RRPG]

Just noticed that the picture of the 303 inspection rounds and 30cal drill isn't there. I shall upload it again now. Apologies for not noticing it was missing earlier

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[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

How typical of governmental waste. Pretty nice adventure for you though. Great thread.

[RRPG]

It is a great site and their loss is our gain I suppose.

Just to put it into context, those 303 inspection rounds were a small part of the 2000 that were recovered from one spot.

[browningautorifle]

2000 that were recovered from one spot.

That would be a nice find. We had someone here do that 30 years back with M2 drill rounds. They pulled the bullets and tumbles and packaged them and sold every single one to us to shoot. The empties they sold for scrap and made back their investment plus and the bullets were just plain gold...everyone shot some of those. I expect you'll be moving these as is though...

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

And every Enfield collector out there would love to have at least one. Government solution dig a hole & bury it. Keep the photos coming.

[Paul S.]

And every Enfield collector out there would love to have at least one. Government solution dig a hole & bury it. Keep the photos coming.

I'm repeating myself here, but an ex-Bootneck I worked with told me that on their return journey to Sydney they pushed fully serviceable, operational US-made Lend-Lease aircraft off the deck of H.M aircraft carrier in which he served and into the Tasman when the Japanese surrendered at the end of WWII. Another WWII veteran who was on some island in the South Pacific (New Britain???) when the war ended told me that the USAAF solution to 'surplus to needs' fighters on the island was to back them up to a ditch on the side of the runway and then run them over and into the ditch with a bulldozer.

Crated, serviceable Spitfires buried in Burma? Not bloody likely.

[mmppres]

let use know if you decide to sell off some of these wonderful finds keep up the good work an thank you so much for sharing

[RRPG]

mmppres - I am afraid I never sell anything I recover. Being chairman of the WW2 Relic Retrieval & Preservation Group it is one of our group's guiding principles. All relics are recovered and preserved, not recovered and listed on e-bay! I do, however, sometimes trade items for things that would compliment my collection. If there is something that has taken your eye, drop me a PM and we can see if we can work out a trade.

Paul S - Every base in England has a story attached to it involving whole aircraft/vehicles/weapons/bombs being dumped in a large pit and buried, in or out of crates. In the 70 years since the end of the war, there is not one documented case of such a dump being discovered. I wait for the day one is, but won't hold my breath.....

[Gil Boyd]

Now...........that reminds me, of two "fully equipped" L/R buried in the sand in Iraq...one day someone, who has the Grid Reference tatooed on his back will go forth and locate said starred items.............just like Kevin Costner and Waterworld

[Colonel Enfield]

mmppres - I am afraid I never sell anything I recover. Being chairman of the WW2 Relic Retrieval & Preservation Group it is one of our group's guiding principles. All relics are recovered and preserved, not recovered and listed on e-bay!

In principle I agree completely with the stance, but on the other hand - when you have 2000 of something, I would respectfully suggest that perhaps 1900 of those somethings might be equally appreciated in the hands of fellow enthusiasts across the globe who may not otherwise have access to them.

It could help defray some of the costs of your worthy undertakings, without compromising the overall principles of not doing it all for profit.