ammunition boxes

Posts : 2 Join date : 2013-09-02

Please help I am trying to make a very good reproduction mark v ammunition box would be very grateful for any information.
require all the fine details labels, seals and stencils and most of all the inner tin box and how it was constructed.
I am sure someone can fill in the blanks.
many thanks.

Posts : 1086 Join date : 2012-05-12 Location : NYC

ljwilson1964 wrote:: Please help I am trying to make a very good reproduction mark v ammunition box would be very grateful for any information.
require all the fine details labels, seals and stencils and most of all the inner tin box and how it was constructed.
I am sure someone can fill in the blanks.
many thanks.

There is a rather fulsome treatment of them in ZULU VICTORY by Ron Locke and Perter Quantrill. Although it is not a manual on how to make them there are photos and a copious discussion on their construction and manufacture. Plus, it's not a difficult or expensive book to lay your hands upon.

Posts : 2558 Join date : 2009-04-06 Age : 62 Location : UK

http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Zulu-Victory/p/2149/

Subject: ammunition boxes Mon Sep 02, 2013 8:38 pm

Hi ljwilson.
There is plenty of information on here regarding the Ammunition boxes , if you use the search box on the left hand side you will find many posts , no doubt some of which you will find interesting. We do have a resident expert on here ' Dundee Boer ' if you contact him via the pm ( private Messaging ) service he will be able to help you no end . I know he's posted much infprmation on here previously about the Mk v and other boxes used in the time . I may have even posted something as well going back a while ago . Let us know how you get on . Salute

Cheers 90th. Very Happy

Posts : 2 Join date : 2013-09-02

90th wrote:: Hi ljwilson.
There is plenty of information on here regarding the Ammunition boxes , if you use the search box on the left hand side you will find many posts , no doubt some of which you will find interesting. We do have a resident expert on here ' Dundee Boer ' if you contact him via the pm ( private Messaging ) service he will be able to help you no end . I know he's posted much infprmation on here previously about the Mk v and other boxes used in the time . I may have even posted something as well going back a while ago . Let us know how you get on .
Cheers 90th.

many thanks not quiet up to speed with all this yet.

Posts : 2558 Join date : 2009-04-06 Age : 62 Location : UK

LJ" Welcome to the forum. Someone on here posted a photo of an ammuntion box that was found in a cave, in very good condition. Somewhere on the forum there is a photograph of Ian Knight and the forum member, who familey member found the box. It could be Brett. It was in connect with a chap called " Filter"

Subject: Ammunition Boxes Wed Sep 04, 2013 6:05 am

Hi John .
I think you'll find it was forum member Johann Englebrecht who posted the Ammo box , from memory it may have been found on or near his property ? , If not, possibly on his Uncles property ? . As usual very happy to be corrected . Salute

90th.

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