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Enemy Sabotage Equipment ( Identification )
London, Eng. The War Office. 1943, First Edition. Original Wraps, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. - British WWII RESTRICTED MILITARY DOCUMENT - red printed & wire-stitched wrappers, 52 pages, then a 2 page index and then 9 amendments continuously paginated to page 96, then 8 pp of bomb disposal notes, with a further 5 amendments in a pocket in the rear - 121 plates illustrating all manner of Sabotage Equipment, their fuse devices and the purpose it was intended for - incendiary devices covered in match head material to strike on a match box - clockwork & chemical fuses - pencil fuses - camouflage lump of coal bomb - thermos flask bombs - oil can bomb - shaving brush detonator - altimeter switches - shoe bombs - pressure release switches - Heinz soup can bomb - tire burster bomb camouflaged as horse dung - Very interesting document from the library of a Canadian Major, an engineer in WWII who specialized in bomb disposal & poison gas detection - very scarce . Fine.
Offered for US$ 450.00 by: alphabet bookshop (ABAC/ILAB) - Book number: 9421