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Description

Diagram of British No. 63 Mk I Time and Percussion fuze.
Classed as Small type Time & Percussion fuze, with G.S. gauge thread (1 inch tapering).
This is a quick-setting fuze, the cap on the stem is circular and is not unclamped before or clamped up after setting. It is set with a special key shaped to fit milling of lower ring.
2 time rings, burning time 20.1 seconds at rest.
Composition channels are lined with asbestos paper.
Replaced Fuze No. 56.
Listed in 1915 for use with shrapnel shells for the following guns :-

Source

Plate LV, Pages 313, 316, 335, 338 in "Treatise on Ammunition" 10th Edition 1915.
Facsimile reprint by Imperial War Museum and Naval & Military Press 2003.

Date

data correct as at 1 August 1914.

Author

War Office, UK

Permission
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Crown Copyright expired (50 years)


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