#OnThisDay 04.November.1917 Sunday Independent
FROM BRICKS TO BOMBS
EXPLOSIVE MORE DANGEROUS TO TROOPS THEN TO THE ENEMY
At Bow street, London Arthur Edward Brown was charged with contravening the Regulations 45H of the Defense of the Realm Regulations.... Brown, he said, was managing director of James Brown Ltd, who,before the war made bricks... who won contracts to supply bombs to the French Warfare Supply Department.
_______Discoveries________
It was found that a number of heads had been used instead of bases, and that holes had been drilled in there heads and they had been plugged. This was the case of 176 bombs. The inspector also found that the plugs had been varnished over in an effort to conceal them. In still further instances the holes had been covered with cement or paint. Download the full page here:
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#OnThisDay 04.November.1917 Sunday Independent
FROM BRICKS TO BOMBS
EXPLOSIVE MORE DANGEROUS TO TROOPS THEN TO THE ENEMY
At Bow street, London Arthur Edward Brown was charged with contravening the Regulations 45H of the Defense of the Realm Regulations.... Brown, he said, was managing director of James Brown Ltd, who,before the war made bricks... who won contracts to supply bombs to the French Warfare Supply Department.
_______Discoveries________
It was found that a number of heads had been used instead of bases, and that holes had been drilled in there heads and they had been plugged. This was the case of 176 bombs. The inspector also found that the plugs had been varnished over in an effort to conceal them. In still further instances the holes had been covered with cement or paint. Download the full page here:
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