Copyright I Carroll
This is another post concerning the notorious Albright and Wilson WW2 artefacts produced by the Oldbury idiots for an anti-tank guerrilla warfare campaign that never transpired
I have looked extensively at the production, use and ultimate abandonment of these useless but highly dangerous white phosphorus filled half pint milk bottles. Over seven million of them were produced between 1940-42 at Oldbury and satellite factories , and then dispatched to Home Guard units around the country in wooden boxes of 24.
All came with clear instructions for use, and some later designs were made to be fired from a gun known as the Northover projector. Many were used for demonstrations and training, but by 1943 it was clear that they were useless for anything but gathering dust.
Numerous finds of these were found long after the war and still are being during building developments because fools on the home guard simply buried them. We do know however that the British State and AW conspired to dump these at Rattlechain lagoon under the cover of a “phosphorus waste” legend with the crap produced at Trinity Street.
This post deals with a one off incident find and is reported by The Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail dated 28th May 1965.
I’ve included the story and the pictures that go with it and a number of observations are apparent that suggest a similar pattern to other stories I have covered about AW bombs being discovered.
- Kids find them and prat about resulting in them exploding
- Army turns up but negligently deals with them by blowing them up and creating further dispersal issues. This was NOT the official recommended method of disposal which is below.
- An explosion and subsequent “mushroom cloud” reported is exactly the wrong thing to have done with them, thus releasing phosphorus pentoxide into the air as well as leaving fragments of P4 scattered which would later potentially catch fire again, as well as being a poison risk to animals.
- The instructions for use and boxes, (see top of post), were with the bombs found.
It is not clear to me if this bloke is even wearing gloves! Why go to the trouble of handling them under water- then blowing them up to scatter the phosphorus fucking everywhere? DICKHEAD
As per standard packing
It’s just a question of how many of them went into a clay pit in Tividale after the war under the cover of “a waste disposal site”.
