I havn't been on here for a while but have an odd question. Have just returned from a trip to Belgium and while poking about in the Flanders Mud, just off the Menin Road , by Hell Fire Corner I found a piece of steel plate 23x23.5x1.5 cm with four rivet holes (one each corner). Its stamped BS75 GKN 1917.
I found out that GKN was a large munitions factory during WW1( Still going today)And would like to know if they made Tank parts, I know they made trains.
Afaik BS 75 is a high strength alloy steel specification commonly used in joining plates on railways. The survival of the steel plate in the ground suggests it isn't armour plate.
That fits, because they were laying new sewer pipes and dumped at the side of the road, along with all the usual shell cases and pickets were whole lengths of railway tracks and sleepers. Pity they were too big for the car.
-- Edited by mickk on Friday 21st of October 2011 07:31:54 PM
