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rb67mustang 
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 Posted: October 20 2022 at 1:17pm |
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Alert.....Alert!!! Gnome Attack!!! Rifle Squads at the ready.....Don't FIRE Until you see the Whites of their Thighs!!!!!
   Well done!!! Commence reloading your Stripper Clips.........Ooooooops........ I meat your Magazine Chargers!!! Not to be confused with Dodge Chargers!!!Lollll!!!!!!!!!!.
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pass the ammo, please, the enemy approaches!!!
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rb67mustang
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Posted: October 20 2022 at 1:19pm |
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Speaking of Dodge Chargers, I'd like mine in Plumb Crazy!!!!!!!!!
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pass the ammo, please, the enemy approaches!!!
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A square 10
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Posted: October 20 2022 at 4:59pm |
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that sounds a nice color .............
we are never nasty here , we often are a bit casual in our joviality but all is meant in good jest , there is seldom a seriously hard word uttered and i mean this sincerely , we here respect one another - but we do jest and pick at one another a bit when we understand the others get what is really being said , the gnomes have been a fixture for ever , the gnome master is in control and never lets them take over the site ....so far
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slowindown
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Posted: January 20 2024 at 1:39pm |
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Is this sperryn and company limited? I can’t tell.
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Posted: January 21 2024 at 3:30am |
It certainly looks like it, albeit badly struck. |
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Posted: July 23 2024 at 7:59pm |
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NEW INFORMATION – Canada – Great War (1914-1919) Mk IV Oil bottle makers
For many years the manufacturers of most Canadian marked MK IV oilers remained a mystery. Recently Michael Skriletz, ( YouTube @waroffice3791 ) pointed us to the Report of War Purchasing Commission, 1915-1916, as well as the Sessional Papers of the Seventy Session of the Twelfth Parliament, Dominion of Canada, 1917, both of which contained a trove of information on suppliers and purchases during the Great War, including “Brass Oil Bottles”. Thank you, Mr. Skriletz. We
are much in your debt for this information.
Until now, the manufacturers of these Unknown Soldiers was a mystery. We now know that “E14” is the Empire Manufacturing Company, London, Ontario, Canada. (See picture 01.) Our example is C-Broad Arrow marked. Mk IV brass oiler. "14" presumed to be "1914". No other marks. We can now document that 18,874 oil bottles at 9 cents each were purchased in 1917. Founded 1906, renamed Empire Brass Manufacturing Company 1920, but retained EMCO as a brand name. The company is still in business today (2024). Nitty gritty details: The Report of War Purchasing Commission, Volumes 1 & 2,
(1916) can be found on Google Books, an invaluable resource of
out-of-print materials in the public domain.
(See picture 02) Starting with the Report of War Purchasing Commission, we searched for “brass oil bottles” and on Page 434, section 3510, found a list of suppliers approved to submit tenders for “Brass Goods (such as Bottles, Oil, Mark IV.; Weights for Pull-throughs, etc.). (See picture 03.) We then turned to the Sessional Papers of the Seventy Session of the Twelfth Parliament, Dominion of Canada, 1917, Volume 1 - Part 3; Volume 52. Again, this was found on Google Books (See picture 04) We searched for “Empire Manufacturing”, and on page ZZ-56, found “Empire Manufacturing Company, London (Ontario, Canada), 18,874 oil bottles at 9c. ….1,698 66.” (see Picture 05) We point out that although the report is dated
1917, there may have been purchases prior to that disbursement. Additionally, the document is silent as to
when those 18,874 oil bottles were actually manufactured. The available record is simply a payment
ledger for that fiscal year.
From the VINTAGE MACHINERY website we learned
that the Empire Manufacturing Company (EMCO)(founded 1906) became the Empire
Brass Manufacturing Company in 1920. EMCO
is still in business today.
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Enfield-Stuff
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Posted: July 23 2024 at 8:04pm |
   
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hoadie
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Posted: July 24 2024 at 3:39am |
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EMCO is primarily a plumbing distributor these days.
They are located across Canada with 500 locations. (I know all kinds of useless stuff!) 
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Loose wimmen tightened here
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hoadie
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Posted: July 24 2024 at 3:40am |
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OH! BTW - I meant to say WELL DONE, DAVID!! (Enfield Stuff)
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Loose wimmen tightened here
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Shamu
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Posted: July 24 2024 at 10:51am |
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Nicely done. Thanks.
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Enfield-Stuff
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Posted: July 24 2024 at 5:13pm |
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Hoadie, Shamu, thank you for your kind words.
I'll be posting updates on three more Canadian oilers shortly, then on to the Canadian bore viewers.
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Posted: July 31 2024 at 3:29pm |
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UPDATE #2 – Canada – Great War (1914-1919) Mk IV Oil bottle makers We next turned our attention to the oilers marked “HB-15”. We now know that “HB-15” is almost certainly the Hamilton Brass Manufacturing Company Ltd., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (See picture 01.) Our example is C-Broad Arrow marked. Mk IV brass oiler. "15" presumed to be "1915". No other marks. The list of approved suppliers (see picture 02) whose name began
with “H” yielded two candidates, Hahn Brass Company Ltd. (Galt,
Ontario) and Hamilton Brass Manufacturing Company Ltd. (Hamilton,
Ontario). Happily, both names turned up in the Sessional
Papers ). Our search for “Hahn Brass” turned up one result (Page ZZ-60) for (identity) “discs, 95,000 @ $1.40 per 100; 138,653 @ $15.50 per 1000; express $9.64; 3488.66”. We found no other listings. It is quite possible that Hahn Brass produced oil bottles at some time during the Great War; but at the moment the documentation we have supports Hamilton Brass as our candidate for “HB-15”. We moved on to search for “Hamilton Brass” and on Page ZZ-60, not far below “Hahn” found “Hamiliton Brass Mfg. Co., Hamilton: oil bottles, 14,468 at 9c. 1302.12”. (See picture 03). As with our previous research, we point out that although the
report is dated 1917, there may have been purchases prior to that disbursement.
Additionally, the document is silent as to when those 14,468 oil bottles
were actually manufactured. The available record is simply a payment
ledger for that fiscal year. The Hamilton Brass Manufacturing Company, founded in 1885, was a prominent manufacturer located near the heart of downtown Hamilton, Ontario, and known as the manufacturer of “cash register, office, bank and church fittings”, employing 140 people circa 1900. Although the Company is listed in the 1915 City Directory, we did not find the company listed in the 1920 Edition of Vernon’s City of Hamilton (Forty-Seventh Annual Street, Alphabetical, Business and Miscellaneous) Directory. The Company may have moved outside of the city – or simply gone out of business. Stay tuned for further updates.
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Posted: August 05 2024 at 1:15pm |
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UPDATE #3 – Canada – Great War (1914-1919) Mk
IV Oil bottle makers
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Posted: August 05 2024 at 2:21pm |
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Thanks!
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Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.
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