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Description

Diagram of British No. 65 A Mk I Time and Percussion fuze, Land service.
Classed as Small type Time & Percussion fuze, with G.S. gauge thread (1 inch tapering).
NOTE : No. 65A was a new fuze; No. 65 was converted from old No. 56, 60 or 63 fuzes.
2 time rings, burning time 20.1 seconds at rest. Each ring has a channel running round nearly all its under surface. The upper ring is graduated from 0 to 44 divisions.
Listed in 1915 for use with shrapnel shells for the following guns :-
Source

Plate LIV, Pages 313, 314, 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
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