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Message started by gelderenj on 03/06/07 at 7:48pm

Title: Report on Whitworth accoutrements �
Post by gelderenj on 03/06/07 at 7:48pm

A colleague collector sends me an image of an old document "for rifle cops about to be armed with the Whitworth rifle.". The report was written in a manuscript record book entitled 'Report & Experiment Book of Arms, Ammunition &c.' WO 140/2 Jan 1862 to Oct. 1887. (School of Musketry Hythe) still kept at the School of Infantry, Warminster. I have published two pages on this forum. See:

http://home.kpnplanet.nl/[email protected]/page1_Whitworth.JPG

http://home.kpnplanet.nl/[email protected]/page2_Whitworth.JPG

This document mentions on page 2 the "pandran pipe pouch" without any further description. �???

We assume that the "pandran pipe pouch" was intended for paper cartridges. I gues that Pandran is the name of the inventor, but actually we know nothing about it. (A name in India/Pakistan ?)

Who can tell us more about the "pandran pipe pouch" for the Whitworth rifle ? We are really eager to know. :P

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Jan van Gelderen
http://OldMilitaryRifles.EU