Finds and UXBs!

Found today and digitised before it completely degrades:

Especially for Peter, something else I found today:





Bomb Trolley Type D?


© IWM (CH 17903)


© IWM (CH 14680)

Ah. Poor old soldier! Probably could tell a few tales of yesteryear. Yes, it looks like the frame of a Type D Bomb Trolley but the Type C was similar but with mud guards and rudimentry front parking brakes. The problem with post-war 'surplus' use of these as general purpose load carriers was the limited ground clearance that restricted them to flat paved surfaces. So, the pneumatic tyred wheels are always the first thing to be nicked.

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A couple of images taken earlier today. I have a good idea what it is, any suggestions?

John wrote:

I have a good idea what it is, any suggestions?

A cylindrical object in a stream?

horrocks;121540 wrote:

A cylindrical object in a stream?

Could be? It's on a former range, has a domed end and a lug for hanging from a bomb rack. Looks like the front end of a Mine A Mk V111.

I side-stepped this due to tablet PC limitations.

There is no sense of scale. What is the approximate diameter of the object?

PETERTHEEATER;121682 wrote:

I side-stepped this due to tablet PC limitations.

There is no sense of scale. What is the approximate diameter of the object?

Diameter 15" (38 cms) length 11.5" (219 cms) with a lug on the side. Think it is the front part of a mine. Will try and find a photo.

The Mark V was just over 15 inches in diameter. Your specimen has what appears to be a suspension lug near the front end but too close. However, most of the air dropped mines in that series had a nose fairing that came off as the mine hit the water so could be sans fairing. I should have thought though that it would have a single point suspension to suit the British bomb carriers in which case the lug is too far forward so it might be a tail section?

Get your welly boots and shovel or call EOD:)