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Dust Fuze

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Bellifortis

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On the 5th of July 1946 the german engineer and developer of the Rheinmetall electric fuzes was transfered by the british military to a place on the outskirts of London where 100 german prisoners of war were helping a small group of british military people to translate german military documents. Attached to this at the time was a research outfit that did research on the dust fuze and had in their posession one of the high speed airturbines from Rheinmetall/Soemmerda. H. Ruehlemann was asked to write a report on the german R & D effort on the dust fuze. This report he wrote in German and it was translated at once into english. Ruehlemann was allowed to return to Germany on the 17th of Oktober 1946.
Has anyone of you ever seen this report on the dust fuze and does anyone of you know where this can be accessed today ? I have never heard of a production modell fuze anywhere in the world using the principal of electrostatic charging , so nothing seems to have come of this british research. Still it would be interesting to read about their experiences. I think it is certain to assume that many, many pages of reports were written about these studies at the time. After 73 years these reports I expect are not confidential any more. Does anybody of you know where these could be accessed ?
Greeetings,
Bellifortis.
 
Hello There is a description of the Dust fuse for the SD10 in the OP 1666 Book page 191-192, if you cannot find the book i will do some pictures of the page,,,,,, Dave
 
I have a copy of a paper entitled The Dust Fuze from the Halstead Translation Centre. It is not immediately accessible but I will try to locate it at the weekend.
 
Bellifortis,

I have found the report. It has a publication ID of BIOS/Gp2/HEC10048 but it might predate the one that you are interested in since it is marked 16th May 1945. If you PM your email address I will send a scan.

Addendum:
It is not the report that you want. The Halstead Exploitation Centre serial number for the report that you want is HEC12512 entitled: Dust Fuzes, Activation of an electric fuze by a static charge caused through the ejection of dust from the projectile. Ruehlemann 1946.

Sorry I dont know where to find this (IWM or our National Archives perhaps). TimG may have an idea.
 
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