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Description

Diagram of British No. 84 Mk I Time and Percussion fuze, Land and Naval service.
Modern 2-inch gauge socket, 2 time rings, burning time at rest 30 seconds.
Body is of aluminium. Time rings of brass, lower movable and upper fixed to stem.
Listed in 1915 for use with shrapnel shells at long range for the following guns :-

  • QF 3 inch 20 cwt
  • QF 12 pounder 18 cwt Naval service
  • QF 12 pounder 4 cwt Naval service
  • BL 6 inch Naval service
  • BL 4 inch Mk VII Mk VIII Naval service
  • QF 4 inch Mk IV Mk V Naval service
Source

Plate LCVI & Pages 313, 332, 337, 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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