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    Short Grenade Launching thingy?

    Heres a Stubby Grenade Launcing SMLE

    http://www.dandbmilitaria.com/smle-m...981-4900-p.asp

    Way to expensive, but has anyone an idea of its intended use? I looks like it could be a Armoured Vehicle Smoke discharger or similar with that collar thing.
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    Its there on the screen matey

    Rare SMLE Mills Grenade Discharger, dated 1918, in excellent condition. These were designed to fire a converted Mills Grenade with a `Cup’ attached to its base. The stock was placed on the ground and the weapon was fired very much like a mortar.
    It looks kinda agricultural in design though!

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    If anyone seriously thinks that it would survive even one grenade firing by placing the butt on the ground, they must be living in the land of the fairies. And they were asleep during their school physics lesson too.

    No doubt it fired grenades but not as they suggest. Those things poking out of the sides look like trunnion axis to me.

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    Agreed Peter, why convert a SMLE to fire a grenade in that way, when the SMLE EY rifle did the same job with the same cup. I'm thinking smoke grenade discharger for a vehicle or its a made up item like a starwars blaster type affair.

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    Rare SMLE Mills Grenade Discharger, dated 1918, in excellent condition. These were designed to fire a converted Mills Grenade with a `Cup’ attached to its base. The stock was placed on the ground and the weapon was fired very much like a mortar. All deactivated weapons sold by D and B Militaria are deactivated in the United Kingdomicon, and hold a London or Birmingham proof mark and certificate stating that the weapon has been deactivated correctly and is legal within the U.K.

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    Here's a pic of a pair of smoke dischargers fitted to a Matilda tank in Singleton during WW2. They were loaded with smoke canisters and cocked, then fired remotely by pull wire from inside.

    Attachment 18720Attachment 18721

    In comparison, I could see the one presented here being used for the same thing, only being fired by hand sitting in a trunnion (as Peter suggested) mount on a hatch cover perhaps...

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    Thats truly interesting...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brit plumber View Post
    Way to expensive
    Indeed. I wouldn't have said a South African 7.62mm converted Bren was 'priced to sell' at £49,500...

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    Those SA converted Brens, converted to the old original and useless L4A1 spec were a pig in a poke. Without the magazine lip supports, they were BOUND to (and inevitably did.....) fail.

    He's clearly made a mistake with the decimal point and means £49:50p or more likely, £4:95p

    But having been brought up on the .303"s and L4A2's, I am slightly biased

    Has anone out there in forumland got an internal picture of the shredded unsupported magazine lips

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