INERT DEACTIVATED. Scarce, Unfired, British, WW2, 1943 Dated, 17pr (76.2 x 583R) Armour Piercing Capped/Trace (APC/T) Tank Round. - O 1918 INERT DEACTIVATED. Scarce, Unfired, British, WW2, 1943 Dated, 17pr (76.2 x 583R) Armour Piercing Capped/Trace (APC/T) Tank Round. - O 1918 Other Ammunition

INERT DEACTIVATED. This is a scarce unfired British WW2 1943 dated 17pr (76.2 x 583R) Armour Piercing Capped/Trace (APC/T) round for the British 17pr tank gun, used in the Sherman Firefly, Archer converted from the Valentine tank, Achilles and the American M10 / M10A1 tanks. The round was also used in17 Pdr towed anti-tank gun. The capped round was introduced to stop the standard armour piercing projectile shattering when hitting face hardened armour plate by the addition of a soft iron cap soldered to the top of a armour piercing projectile. This round was ballistically inefficient due to the flattened nose and was soon replaced by the streamlined Armour Piercing Capped Ballistic Cap/Trace (APCBC/T) projectile. This Armour Piercing Capped/Trace (APC/T) round is headstamped on the brass cartridge case 17 PR I LOT 111 VAEL (Vickers Armstrong Engineering Limited) 1943 (1943 date) CF (Cordite Full Charge). The round has a Armour Piercing Capped/Trace (APC/T) projectile with two unfired copper driving bands. The price includes UK delivery and no licence is required to possess this inert round in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. O 1918 £975