Description
This rocket is designed for day or night signaling.
The components consist of a propellant-composition filled case, closed by a wooden plug, and an upper cylinder containing 28 white stars.
The case consists of a rolled paper tube choked near the lower end to form a vent and threaded below the choke to receive the wooden plug. The tube is filled with rocket-propellant composition, the center of which has a conical cavity. A clay filling plug with a tapered hole in its center is located in the top of the tube primed with mealed black powder. A small charge of rocket composition is dusted over the top face of the clay. A clay plug with a tapered hole is located immediately above the choke. The recess and the choke are primed with gunpowder. A metal socket for accommodating the stick is glued to the outside of the case, and also bound to it with twine.
The cylinder consists of a rolled paper tube filled with 28 white stars. It is closed at one end by a paper disc covered with a paper cone, and at the other end is attached to the case. The joints are sealed with paper strips.
The rocket is painted olive drab and carries a white instructional label around the case. Manufacturing and filling information is stenciled on the cylinder.
Functioning
No information about functioning.
See Also
Source(s)
OP 1665, British Explosive Ordnance (1946)
