The electrically ignited type were used in the rear smoke emitters well into the post war period. The blank fired type were used in the smoke dischargers and we're in theory replaced by the 2" bomb thrower but they also survived in use to the end of the war. You find containers for the generators dated into the 1980's but I suspect these were not for the original, vehicle mounted use. Comet was the last tank to have tail smoke as standard.How long were the 4inch No8 smoke generators used on early British tanks that were either electrically fire (i think) or fired from a .303 balistite blank. When did they stop using them.
A friend makes accurate display replicas for military vehicle owners. He has a Facebook group for them.What did these No 8 smoke generators look like fresh out of the tin. Is there a manual?
They are resin.They look nice what are they made of and whats his Facebook name for these.
I found these pics in my files from a while back, I don't have the items. As Ammotechxt says they show the later colouring of smoke producing stores. The image of the Brown storage tin in Chris's post is actually mine from way back, and I still have the tin now.I think the later ones, according to the marking system introduced in the 1960s, were painted eau-de-nil (a light shade of green) with a brown (low explosive) hazard band around the body. The width of the hazard band would have been 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch, I forget which. There would probably also have been stencilling on the body to include the designation of the store and the filled lot number. Apologies if my memory fails me. I'm sure I saw some of these in an ammo process building in the 1980s.