The Lake Erie Fireless Tru-Flite Shell.
This is a steel case 37mm Super Long Range (350yd) Tear Gas shell with a W.R.A. New No.4 primer.
The highest Patent number on the case is 1878489.
I have read that the W.R.A. Co. New No.4 primer was used in shotshells circa 1909-1933, but has been seen in flare cartridges as late as 1942.
Can anyone help date this tear gas shell?
I have many vintage brochures but the first stop should be Thomas Swearengen’s book. Tear Gas Munitions I’ll look
and many of Swearengen’s actual photo models in my collection
Xerox Scan_06152018085606.pdf (679.8 KB)
PS Carl R. Weinert of Federal Laboratories patent December 11,1935 (fin stabilized tear gas projo accurate to over 100 yds)
Pepper, thanks a lot!
Is that book avilable as a pdf somewhere?
Thank you Pepper, much appreciated.
CSAEOD sells a scanned disk on GunBroker.
The out of print book gets sold occasionally for crazy dollars ($150+).
It might be the most used reference in my collection as I search rounds, pens, billys and canisters…(I’m one of the few nuts to collect the old stuff…love it)
PS…and I have about 75% of the actual items used in his photos (the studio photos of the examples…not the outdoor range fired “things”)…I have such as figures 265, 266, 268
