Richard709
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A new ish alloy screw top tin age unknown,
56mm x 25mm
and a slightly older alloy screw top tin
115mm x 38mm
Richard
56mm x 25mm
and a slightly older alloy screw top tin
115mm x 38mm
Richard
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Hi Richard, I'm guessing that the tin marked A573 Mk 1 may be the older of the two or to an older design, because the other is marked with a drawing number SV3604, rather than with a (earlier style) model or mark number. The second container is marked for an Actuating Charge for a Simulator Projectile Airburst Liquid (SPAL) and seems to have contained one made in 1990. I'm guessing again then when I say that the `88' stencilling means that the container was made in 1988 and that `MON' may be the container manufacturer. These two containers would have been inner containers within larger and more substantial outer containers. Both inner containers are of thin aluminium construction and this type has seen wide use in the British services in different sizes from the 1970s onwards. Before that there was some use in thicker aluminium, as inner containers for artillery fuzes.
Richard709
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I think you are probably right, I do have a very small collection of aluminium tins and trying to date them can be very difficult, I do have an A571 mk1 with a Label with a packing date of 03/01 (believe Re-pack) and an A610 Mk3 base marking and on the body an original ROF Chorley label filling date 08/04, this tin could have been sat around for some time before being used??. I also have a few tins that do not have any marking at all, some do have filling/packing labels Dating form the 90's through to the last couple of years, and of course they do get re-used, I do like the small Containers and accessories that some may ignore, The Containers I have, have varying amounts of the original internal packing.
Richard
Richard
Some containers such as the H80 series outers, eg H83, have the drawing / design number marked on them as well as the ammo container number. I have seen some of the thin aluminium ones you mentioned that have no markings on at all. Some of them would have had a paper label attached, to say what their contents were, for example dessicant refill kits (no explosive in them at all) for the Rapier missile container and the injector cartridges for some of the EOD weapons.