Sectioned german Type 89B fuze and Setter

[Waffenamt]

Hi All,

Here is a little project undertaken this week. Fuze was amongst stock bought from a closed museum a few years ago and the setter acquired from a friends collection.

 

Type 89B time fuze used alongside other types to burst open airdropped containers. Mainly sub-munition containers.

The outer casing of the fuze had been hacked apart years ago,i tidied up the cut to show the innards and the lovely clockwork which still functions! The det was removed back in the war as i believe it was from a BD mans collection up in Barrow in-Furness,which sounds right as these were used to burst open containers for such as incendiary bombs and Barrow was subject to many of these type of raids.

Interesting to note those lovely ink stamps still present on bioth the fuze components and the outer casing. Very chuffed to own this one.

Nice luftwaffe inspector markings on the setter handle too.

Enjoy.

[Waffenamt]

View of the clockwork,setter and fuze together and an application example.

Container shown is the AB-1000-2 for 610 B-1 Incendiary bombs. As it was dropped,vanes deployed in the air after fuze burst to throw out the incendiaries.

There was a relic example for sale at last years W+P show in Kent.

 

[Lenny]

Fantastic....

[Guest Fred Karno's Army]

That container must have been some size  ,I never knew that .

[Waffenamt]

47 minutes ago, Ham & Jam said:

That container must have been some size  ,I never knew that .

Its an example of ones they used,Ham. I think they started around Series AB100-to 1000?