18pr used - Antique Mall half price ~ why is it over here ?

[Gspragge]

Half price at one of these places really means you can get it for what it's worth maybe~
"Brown Brothers & Company in Rosebank Iron Works at Edinburgh"
The fuze adapter seems to be Canadian, the fuze British. I can't get it off to see who made it.
This of course is by it's fired nature assembled again, so the adapter and fuze are most likely from a totally different
projectile likely Canadian, though if these adaptors were imported loose maybe it's correct on the body sort of.
Why is a Scottish body in Canada at all ? I suspect brought back in 1936 as a souvineer from the Vimy monument
ceremony which was hugely attended by veterans. Lots of things came back then, dug rifles still with the wood on and so on.
Millions of these over there, not so many here, mostly fired 12 Prs. Though there must be a great many on the old
ranges here that have never been got at.

 

[Snufkin]

BBCo. is Brown, Boggs Co., Canada, and still in business as Brown Boggs Foundry and Machinery Company.

 

[Darkman]

Yes, Canadian made shell because of the 2 letter lot code (BC) under the date, rather than a lot number

 

[Gspragge]

Well that makes more sense , now if it's fired here with a British fuze that would mean we hadn't quite got our production
going by that date. It seems that No 80 production didn't get going until July 1916 and previous to that U.S.made fuzes were
supplied around April 1916. This was to allow for complete rounds to be sent overseas. So for proofing rounds though
these are usually blind I believe so that they can be examined or training we would be using imported fuzes. I have read that
almost all 18prs went back to the UK in 1914 and we only had enough for proof firing and it was difficult to keep those
in oder due to barrel wear. Wartime artillery mages here show 12prs as standard .
I don't know enough about the proofing proceedures here to really know wether fuzed projectiles were used. The only detailed
description about this is how the Russians proofed rounds in the U.S. that I know of
(Canadian letter codes I always over look that thinking every one did the same, which of course they didn't.
Why we always made things more complicated I never understood)
I just recalled that I have another of these Mixed metal MKlV fuzes I bought quite a few years ago. Also fired
and the markings are on the nose. This one is 2/16 COW made. I expect fired here like the one on the projectile
on which the markings are obliterated. These fuzes don't show up over here and I supose the relic types are badly corroded
so those don't find favour with the souvineer crowd.

 

[Gspragge]

It appears that my refrences to Projectile manufactures over here is very incomplete ~
Is there a decent list in any ones hands ?
I haven't an answer to this ww2 maker mark yet either ?
S C ?