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INERT DEACTIVATED. British, Unfired, WW2, 1938 Dated, 2pr (40x304R) APHE/T (Armour Piercing High Explosive/Trace) Tank & Anti-Tank Round. Sn - 22188 INERT DEACTIVATED. This is an unfired British 2pr (40x304R) APHE/T (Armour Piercing High Explosive/Trace) round for the British 2pr anti-tank gun and the 2 pounder tank gun fitted to early WW2 British Valentine and Cruiser tanks. The anti-tank gun was also fitted on the back of a Morris or Chevrolet lorry and called a Portee. During the war, the 2 pounder tank gun was used in the Littlejohn trials with the squeezebore 40mm to 30mm adapter fitted to the 2 pounder gun. Post war, the gun was fitted to the early Saladin armoured cars. This APHE/T round had a small filling of Lyddite high explosive and is complete with the projectiles original brass base fuze and tracer element. The unfired steel armour piercing projectile still retains some of its original yellow paint in the stampings on the side of the projectile and the base. The side of the projectile is stamped GL 208.11 A.P 2Pr 1 H.LTD 23.12.38 (date) together with other ordnance stamps. The heavy brass number 281 mark I fuze/ tracer assembly is fitted to the base of the projectile. The fuze is made completely of brass and consists of 3 parts, the fuze body, tracer holder and the screw on cap, the fuze is stamped AT83 on the side and the tracer assemble is stamped on the side No 281 I 1 RL (Royal Laboratories) 1-37 (January 1937) 94 W3/39. The brass cartridge case is headstamped 2PR Mk IX Gun over I (mark 1) VAEL (Vickers Armstrong Engineering Limited) 1937 (date) CF (Cordite Full Charge) LOT 67. See pages 73 to 75, Hogg, British and American Artillery of World War Two. The price includes UK delivery and no licence is required to possess this inert round in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 22188 £375.00
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