Beetle Bailey Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Several years ago I was very keen on collecting anything to do with the PIAT (I used to put a free-ad in Gun Mart under the name "Mr PIAT"). Back then I just missed out on buying a booklet on the PIAT which was produced at the end of the war for the employees of the company who made it. Now, something in the back of my mind tells me that the company was ICI. Does anyone have a copy, or shed any light on this booklet? Any info would be most gratefully received. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob8066 Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Have you tried to google it or good old Wikepedia may have a link to a pdf. You'll be amazed what is on there & some of it is even factual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beetle Bailey Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 Yes I've tried long and hard but got no hits. I know this booklet exists as the guy showed me a photocopy he did before selling it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Beetle Bailey Now, something in the back of my mind tells me that the company was ICI. I would think the ICI link is due to the moulded explosive filling,- PIATs and the associated ammunition and other spigot weapons were made by many smaller workshops and government ROFs, My father once re-counted that as a young man in 1940, he had to take prototype parts for PIAT/Spigot Mortar weapon from Birtley Ordnance factory to Allens electro-plating in Newcastle for a specialist chroming layer to be applied, he was unsure of the exact type of weapon (no doubt walls have ears rational) but components were the spigot end and the projecticle tube - imagine sending a 17 year old carrying secret weapons components wraped in brown paper and string on public transport -makes the man from the MOD loosing laptops in a pub plausible. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 I know its not the publication you are asking about, but you probably know about the Army publication? These turn up from time to time. Small Arms Training, Volume I, Pamphlet No.24 Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank (PIAT) 1943 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beetle Bailey Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 I've got two or three different training pamphlets on the PIAT, one of which, if my memory serves me well, shows the very early twin leg support. The ICI reference to the explosive would make sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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