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Description: | KP. 160 ((Engraved on the aluminium mushroom head time delay dial). . Dopp.Z96.n/A (Engraved on the aluminium mushroom head time delay dial). K-70 (scale engraved on the mushroom head time delay dial graduated in increments of 2 subdived by 1 unit from K ,which is one on the scale) Glasgow University Campus, University Avenue, Gilmorehill, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland. On surface MANU unknown for the German Wehrmacht (armed forces) Luftwaffe. circa 1943 unknown Germany This time delay fuze head from a type LMB parachute mine. The time delay would appeared to have been from one to seventy one and a half days. This type of bomb was designed to be dropped into water and then wait until the timer activated it. A magnetic variometer then detected passing ships and detonated the bomb. However, this type of bomb was fitted from 1943 with a contact fuse that exploded the bomb if it hit dry land. These bombs were incorrectly called land mines by the British. This object was found by N.M. Dewar Gibb the son of Professor Andrew Dewar Gibb, Regius Professor of Law at Glasgow. Mr Gibb collected it in his youth as a trophy during the Second World War. It is one of several pieces found near the University flagpole above the river Kelvin - see also 113943 and C.1994.18 to C.1994.21 | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | HISTORICAL COLLECTION : STAIRCASE2_2008 : GIBB : BOMB : LMB : PARACHUTE : AERIAL : MINE : LANDMINE : GERMAN : LUFTWAFFE : WEHRMACHT : STATUE : WAR : WORLD WAR TWO : KELVINWAY : BRIDGE : EUROPE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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