The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Green rectangular steel box with rounded corners used to store and transport five Number 74 'sticky bomb' anti tank grenades. The box is hinged at three points and opens through 180 degrees into two halves. One half of the interior is bisected with a flat dividing sheetmetal plate with five circular cutouts to accomodate five sticky bombs. The other half is fitted with two 'C' shaped spring clips that would secure a tubular handle. On the outside end of the box is stenciling in red letters which reads 'S T GRENADES EMPTY CASE.EMPTY GRENADES.PARTS ONLY.FILLED GRENADES'. Along the top edge there are two swinging handles made from steel rod and a sliding bolt and ring to close and lock the box. Next to the handles, stencilled in white is further text which reads 'EXD MEL 6-42' There is a brown sticky residue coated to most of the inside surface.
The 'Grenade, Number 74 Anti Tank Mk1' was packed into this type of steel case as its primary packaging. Each case contained five grenades and five handles wrapped in corrugated cardboard. Five detonator assemblies enclosed in a cardboard tube were clipped to the inside of the lid of the case. Three of these cases were packed into a wooden 'Crate, Number 74, Anti Tank, Grenade G69.
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Nailed rectangular wooden crate with a hinged lid. The long sides are made from single planks of 20 mm thick wood. There are a pair of zinc-aluminium alloy hinges and a centrally-mounted twist elbow c
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