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No 330 Mark I (L)
- Thread starter Burney Davis
- Start date
It may well be an inner container but for what, i cannot think. There were similar inner containers for an Army Air Corps store, the Flare, Aircraft, Recce but I think one of those had a separate cap that came off when you pushed down on its top. Those caps were made with cut-outs on the sides at regular intervals that expanded just enough for their removal. Quite a clever design really. LCPL Combat may have a better memory than me. There was also a Flare, Ground Illuminating, that may have been packed in a similar inner container but I think it was longer than your cylinder. Certainly such inner containers were current at least from the 1960s to the 1980s. There must have been a number of very skilled people who could solder the seams. In the 1980s there was a lady at Kineton who was an expert solderer and always made a great job of resealing the timnplate inner containers for .22 Inch Ball / Tracer x 10,000. Not that the .22 inner container was the shape of your article.