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06-07-2017, 11:47 AM | #12 | |
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06-17-2017, 04:11 PM | #14 | |
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Quite by chance, I found an interesting titbit today, while browsing through Cartridges of the World. The German military rifle calibre in WWI was 8x57mm Mauser, the same as they used in WWII. The Treaty of Versailles specified how many rifles the small treaty army could keep: enough for them and a reasonable amount of spares. That meant there were millions of rifles that needed to be destroyed, many of whom had been taken home by soldiers. Most of them were never recovered. Some armed the various paramilitary organisations between the wars, and some were just kept by the soldiers. It became illegal to privately own rifles in that calibre, which got some of them handed in, but many more were not. In about 1920, somebody created an 8x60mm cartridge, with performance remarkably similar to the military cartridge. Converting an ex-army rifle was a simple matter of lengthening the chamber, which was not expensive, and gave you a military-equivalent rifle that was nonetheless legal. Converting them back would have required a new barrel, and I don't know how many were done.
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A late addition to this thread: I've just posted on my blog pictures of the Finnish submarine Vesikko, built as part of this covert rearmament effort, and in effect the prototype Typ II U-boat.
https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2...e_Vesikko.html
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09-04-2017, 06:15 PM | #17 |
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One I just got was Spies in the Congo by Susan Williams about German and Allied spies intriguing to control uranium. I just started the book so I don't know how much it serves your purpose.
Apparently there was a thriving uranium mine in the region. According to the wiki U was used for photography, and as a glaze for glasswork, ceramic, and even dinnerware, the last of which sounds utterly insane in retrospect(nowadays when they use it for shot rounds they know enough to deplete it, then the whole point was that it glowed).
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Lots of metals and even heavy metals have ended up in pigments. Titanium white, chromium yellow, cadmium blue and others.
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