Military pyrotechnics by fireworks companies.

I thought I would get the ball rolling by posting a couple of pics of flares. All items in my collection are inert. The red star is 1"( 4 Bore) cartridge filled by Standard in 1941,the empty cartridge would have been supplied from elsewhere.Nice with its closing cap.
The Green star dated 1943 is I believe filled by Wilders by need confirmation as 2" mortar Para Illuminating bombs in my collection are marked W F Ltd. I have owned a lot of 2" bombs filled by them. Any pics showing the factory filling such things would be amazing to see!
Will add more to this as time allows as I have a few bits.

 

Think J W & S is by Joseph Wells and Sons, not Wilders.

 

Here is an advert from 1938 from C T Brocks advertising a whole range of training items.........

 

Cheers Kev, that's even better than Wilders, as I already know they make military flares. That means the MKIII case I've attached a pic of marked JW, is by Wells. This cartridge is circa 1900. Also attached is a pic of a rare 1.5" cartridge for aircraft signalling. Marked Wilders and dated 1918.

 

You've some nice stuff there,
i need to look through my files as I used to get a lot of old flares etc many years ago, fired but in good condition...before I caught the vintage pyro bug.......
Look forward to seeing what else you have..........

 

Time for a few more Items some early bits here and one for some help with. I will post each one with its description as i seemed to double post before!

 

First is a British army Red star with its original card liner, this is pre 1900 and has the rim milled all round for night identification

 

Pic 2 is a MKIV white star by James Pain and son with a half milled rim for night identification, this is pre WW1.

 

Next is a Pains commercial cartridge not sure of date but may still be a WW1 contract, should be marked V to base if military, in military usage a smooth rim denote green star for night ID

 

This is an aluminium cased L series 1" flare, I have lots of variations of these, most being filled by Goverment ordnance factories not firework companies, Chorley in Lancashire was the most common, with Radway green a close second. this L5A2 cartridge has a filling monogram of S Q which I believe is Sanquar?? If so who was running the factory at that date? Any extra info etc welcome, lots more to come when I have time.Cheers Tig.

 

That would be Brocks up at Sanquhar at that time.

 

Cheers for that Kev, I found a pic of an army smoke grenade of similar date with the top of the fuze stamped brocks.

 

On my search this evening i found this, ill stick it in my other thread on Wilders but thought suited here as well. Not my image, it was on a council site for last years November period.