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Message started by A._Roads on 05/15/06 at 9:29am

Title: Bullet info request
Post by A._Roads on 05/15/06 at 9:29am

Hi all, Could someone please post here, or email me direct if it is easier. I earnestly need a picture showing the official dimensions of the following projectiles:

1). The .45 service projectile for a Martini Henry Rifle.

2). The .303 Mk VII service projectile.

3). The .303 Mk VIII service projectile.

I need the projectiles only, not the cartridge case etc.

Help would be much appreciated as I am away from my library for some time & have no adequate reference here. I have to arrange for fiberglass copies of these, proportionally correct, approx 3 metres high, for a museum being fitted out. Thanks in advance, Adrian Roads.

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Title: Re: Bullet info request
Post by Bill_Curtis on 05/15/06 at 12:18pm

My text books for the .303 period do not include bullet dimensions but that for 1887 does. See illustration.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v711/whitworth451/450MartiniBall.jpg[/img]

Title: Re: Bullet info request
Post by A._Roads on 05/15/06 at 2:04pm

Thanks for that Bill, it has nailed the M/H beatifully for me.

I'm okay for the .303's now as well.

A quick draft of approx sizes on the drawing board has shown that to fit the spiral stairs & gantry inside those we need a 5' 6" higher ceiling than the 5 metres height we have. So those two bullets will be rethought....

The martini having a wider body fits well!

Regards, Adrian.