7mm Broadway Trust

[TonyE]

Here is a bit of cartridge curiosa, the 7mm Broadway Trust.

This was developed by Sir Dennis Burney of ICI, and the Broadway Trust Comapny was a cover jointly owned by Sir Dennis, ICI and the Ministry of Supply. The cartridge was designed to fire in a recoiless rifle and used extremely long projectiles. There were a number of recoiless weapon developments ranging from small arms to artillery. The company existed from October 1943 to 1948.

Attached are pictures of two types of case, the unfired bullets and some fired and sectioned bullets from my collection.

Regards
TonyE

[zwerge]

Very interesting Tony,first time I have seen these.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Me too, never heard of it before. Thanks Tony.

Cheers, Ade.

[TonyE]

Now if you guys were members of either the International Ammunition Association (IAA) or the European Cartridge Research Association (ECRA) you could have read my article on the Broadway Trust Company and seen details of all their developments, since in was published in both organisations' journal!

Regards
TonyE