Sunday 25 February 2024

Measurement Issues...


Really? Maybe have a word with your photographer then...



Where did the other 40 inches go?!

H/T: Ian J via email

6 comments:

The Jannie said...

"Where did the other 40 inches go?!"

As the actress said to the bishop . . .

Doonhamer said...

The brick in the picture would be about nine inches long. Wartime.
The one metre, 39 inch long bomb looks to be about four bricks long.
Maybe when it had fins, since rusted or torn away, it might have been a metre.
Which fits with the German passion for neatness. I stereotype. Naughty me.

gonetomorrow said...

The SC500 bomb was indeed 80 inches long but that includes the sheet metal tail section and the fins which are not visible here and may have become detached when it hit the ground or rusted away.

IF this was truly a (very common) SC500 not a misidentified smaller bomb.

Anonymous said...

Maybe Mitchell C. Vest (see next post) might like to shove it up his arse (under his kilt, of course).

Anonymous said...

How typical!

A woman (inconveniently) noticing the difference between a bombs claimed dimension and reality.

I just bet the poor residents were forced out by a document showing a pristine, factory-fresh, teenage bomb too. Not that rusted and aged relic.

JuliaM said...

"As the actress said to the bishop . . ."

😏

"Maybe when it had fins, since rusted or torn away, it might have been a metre."

Oh, yes, I suppose, being thinner, they'd be the first to go?

"IF this was truly a (very common) SC500 not a misidentified smaller bomb."

How fascinating that there's an identification chart for WWII ordnance!

"Maybe Mitchell C. Vest (see next post) might like to shove it up his arse (under his kilt, of course)."

OOoh, missus!

"How typical!

A woman (inconveniently) noticing the difference between a bombs claimed dimension and reality."


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