Brit. .276 Pedersen?

[jonnyc]

I recently picked up this fired .276 Pedersen case. A bit of research leads me to believe it's a bad Greenwood & Batley headstamp. Was the lonely "B" intentional for some reason, or did they use a damaged bunter? The appearance of the "B" and the "0" in "0.276" lead me to lean towards the latter.

 

[smle2009]

Not Birmingham Metal and Munitions Co Ltd then?


Cheers
Tony

 

[jonnyc]

That was my first thought, but I believe they were gone by 1930. In addition, only Kynoch and GB were known to produce the .275 Pedersen round.

 

[ydnum303]

Hi JonnyC and Tony,
Yes, this is one of those made by Greenwood & Batley. I also have one, and the "B" and the "0" are bothe exactly like the one shown. I dont know if any were made with a full G&B h/s (I am sure TonyE will tell us); I can only assume that the bunter was badly made. Still a nice case to get, though!

Regards
Roger.

 

[smle2009]

That was my first thought, but I believe they were gone by 1930. In addition, only Kynoch and GB were known to produce the .275 Pedersen round.

I thought the UK was playing around with the US .276 Pedersen rifle,but shelved it because of the vast amounts of .303" ammunition in store left over from WW1?

 

[Tony Williams]

I thought the UK was playing around with the US .276 Pedersen rifle,but shelved it because of the vast amounts of .303" ammunition in store left over from WW1?

It was the US Army which dropped it because they had so much .30 ammo. The British were interested, and manufactured more of the ammo than than the US did, but when the US dropped out it had no future.

 

[EOD]

Does anybody know about .276 made from 7.92x57 cases in 1931, maybe German copies for evaluation?