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	Blacker Bombard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Blacker Bombard was a cheap anti-tank weapon devised by Lt-Col Blacker in the early years of the Second World War.
		Although intended for use by the regular units of the British Army it was replaced by the PIAT before that was necessary and was given over to the British Home Guard for their use.
		In 1940, Blacker, who was a private inventor of weapons, drew up the Bombard based on the spigot discharger.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blacker_Bombard (463 words)

	PIAT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Instead they turned to a prewar weapon known as the Blacker Bombard, a small man-portable mortar using a large spring for propulsion.
		The Blacker Bombard was never used operationally, but was perfect for modification as the launcher for a HEAT round.
		For this use the upper portion of the "barrel" was cut away on one side to form a trough, which could be reloaded by dropping rounds into it while lying prone.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/p/pi/piat.html (444 words)

	PIAT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The US and Germans concentrated on rockets to propel their weapons, but in 1941 when the PIAT was being developed, these systems were nowhere near ready for use.
		The charge was also intended to reset the spring, meaning that the weapon had to be cocked only once, by pulling up on the tube while standing on a handle mounted at the rear.
		For this use the upper portion of the "barrel" was cut away on one side to form a tray, which could be reloaded by dropping rounds into it while lying prone.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /PIAT (598 words)

	PIAT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British instead turned to a prewar weapon known as the Blacker Bombard, a large mortar type of weapon, known as a "spigot discharger" or spigot mortar, invented by Lt-Col Blacker, RA.
		The Blacker Bombard was never used operationally, and was retained for use by the Home Guard.
		A section of the "barrel" was cut away on the top to form a tray for the round, which could be reloaded with fresh rounds with the operator remaining prone.
	en.wikipedia.org /?title=PIAT (1205 words)

	PIAT - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Instead they turned to a prewar weapon known as the Blacker Bombard, a large mortar type of weapon, known as a spigot discharger, invented by Lt-Col Blacker, RA.
		The spring pushed against a 12 pound (5 kg) steel canister and rod that rode up the barrel and impacted with the rear of the shell, igniting a small propulsion charge.
		The Blacker Bombard was never used operationally, and was retained for use by the Home Guard but was perfect for modification as the launcher for a HEAT round.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/PIAT (898 words)

	Blacker Bombard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 29mm Spigot Mortar or "Blacker Bombard" was invented by Lieutenant-Colonel Blacker in the early years of WW2 as a cheap and easily produced weapon to replace ordnance lost at Dunkirk.
		The weapon had the drawback of when the warhead hit its target, the fins had a nasty habit of flying backwards along the original trajectory with the resulting danger of injury to the firing crew.
		The "Bombard" had an effective range with the anti-tank bomb of around 100-150 yards, so the firing crew was expected to wait until any tanks were at close range.
	www.slaidburn.org.uk /blacker_bombard.htm (247 words)

	Nase noviny - PIAT (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lieutenant Colonel Blacker patented the design and in 1944 received an award of 25,000 pounds for his part in the development.
		While the Americans were working on their bazooka and the Germans later replied with their answer to the development of rocket-propelled anti-tank weapons, the Panzerschreck, basically a copy of the American design, the British started working on the successor of their main anti-tank weapon, the Boys rifle, in 1937.
		Inside the barrel there was a large spring which drove a rod, or spigot, into the rear of the shell, igniting a small charge that sent the round flying out of the barrel.
	www.geocities.com /nasenoviny/PIATen.html (592 words)

	Eversley Cross Map Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The base was used as mount for a 29mm Spigot Mortar or "Blacker Bombard".
		The Bombard was devised during the start of World War 2 by Lieutenant-Colonel Blacker as a cheap, easily produced weapon to replace ordnance that had been lost during the British evacuation from Dunkirk.
		The Bombards' effective range using the anti-tank bomb was only 100-150 yards, which meant it had to be used at very close range.
	www.eversleycross.co.uk /gunpost.htm (188 words)

	TooWrite.com. True stories from real people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It, too, was an anti-tank weapon made up of four heavy metal tubes that fitted into a central iron block from which projected a spike ending in a firing pin.
		All the parts were extremely heavy; they had to be to bear the weight of the Bombard.
		This was a bulbous torpedo with a sleeve ending in a tail fin, which was slid over the gun's spike.
	www.toowrite.com /toowrite_story.asp?sid=4376 (1234 words)

	PIAT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Rocket-propelled anti-tank weaponry was still in their infancy at this stage in the war and so the several earmarked replacements were based on the design of the spigot mortar, a simple projectile weapon.
		The retired Lieutenant-Colonel Blacker had, prior to the war, specialised in inventing a range of inexpensive home-made weaponry in his work shop, amongst which was the large "Blacker Bombard" spigot mortar.
		The weapon was so simple in its design and so crudely constructed that at a glance it appeared to be amongst the very worst of amateurish efforts.
	www.arnhemarchive.org /equip_piat.htm (923 words)

	Interesting PIAT Info - FileFront Gaming Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1940 Lt-Col Blacker became involved with MD1 (Ministry of Defence 1) an establishment set up by the military with the task of designing and investigating into unconventional weaponry for use by clandestine forces.
		Blacker's next project was a smaller, man portable Baby Bombard but before he got very far he left MD1 and the prototype Baby Bombard was left with Major Jefferis (later Major General R. m.
		Reports were not good, they claimed that ‘the Baby Bombard would prove ineffective as an anti-tank weapon under any conceivable conditions of employment’ and on August 11th 1941 it was officially dropped.
	www.gamingforums.com /showthread.php?p=1308714 (1880 words)

	Phil Davis, Anti-tank weapons
		It was a prototype for a spring powered mortar before the war and they fitted it with a new projectile.
		When it hit it exploded and made what is called plasma or smog and it would blow down through the center and actually burn and blast a hole through the armor.
		They took the Blacker Bombard and changed it from a mortar to a anti-tank weapon and then called it the Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank or PIAT for short.
	www.sangamoncorifleassociation.org /phildavis/antitank.html (1601 words)

	Battlefront - Producers of fine metal and resin miniatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The PIAT was the invention of Lieutenant-Colonel Blacker of the Royal Artillery.
		Initially Blacker was looking at this system to make a dual purpose weapon, something that could be used for either high explosive (like a mortar) or anti-tank (with direct fire).
		The ’Baby Bombard’ was tested and found unsatisfactory due to the poor performance of its anti-tank round.
	www.battlefront.co.nz /Article.asp?ArticleID=194 (477 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Godfrey Webster
		This included a pipe-like object, a four-inch mortar known as the "Blacker Bombard".
		There was a magnificent waterfall cascading down the mountain beneath which he built a house that he named Faz Quinta da Nova Vida (estate of the new life).
		Although, throughout his years in Brazil, Webster bombarded his trustees with letters complaining that he had insufficient funds, lack of money was never allowed to cramp his style.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/08/23/db2301.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2003/08/23/ixopright.html (1089 words)

	canadiansoldiers.com Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Piat was derived from a Spigot Mortar designated as the Bombard invented by Lt/Col Blacker in the early 40s.
		The Bombard was an unwieldy weapon mounted on four legs firing a 20 or 14 lb bomb.
		Lt/Col Blacker was a private inventor who took the UK Government to court after the war and was awarded 25000 pounds for his work.
	www.network54.com /Forum/28173/message/1110477942/Piat (380 words)

	The Box
		The organisation's expertise was in the employment of high explosives and the development of shaped charge and 'squash head' technologies were dominated by the department.
		MD1 produced Blacker's Bombard, the PIAT, Hedgehog (with DMWD), 7.5-inch AVRE, Tank Ploughs, a bridge-laying tank called the Great Eastern, a 4.5-inch Naval gun and numerous bombs.
		When SOE was formed in 1940 from MIR, Section D (of the SIS) and another secret organisation, the technical group of MIR was not included.
	www.millsgrenades.co.uk /box.htm (1056 words)

	Important wartime defence found (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		According to researcher and historian Ian Sanders, who has built a site about World War 2 Pillboxes and Anti-Invasion Defences, the spigot mortar was also known as the Blacker Bombard and was invented by Lieutenant-Colonel Blacker.
		The intention was to design a cheap and easily produced weapon (after most of the British Army's heavy equipment had been lost at Dunkirk).
		The spigot mortar, or Blacker Bombard, was rejected by the regular army but saw service with Home Guard and airfield protection units from 1941-1944.
	www.brookmans.com /news/may03/spigotmortar.shtml (699 words)

	The HRLH Society was formed,
		The spigot mortar was a weapon shunned by the regular army but was issued to the Home Guard in large numbers to protect bridges and other strategic locations.
		The concrete bases to these weapons, with their steel pintles, can now be found in hedgerows, beside roads, or even exposed in the middle of fields.
		The Blacker Bombard was invented by Col. Blacker and developed as part of Churchill's 'Toy Shop' to create cheap and easily produced weapons (after most of the British Army's heavy equipment had been lost at Dunkirk).
	home.clara.net /anvil/hathhs.htm (486 words)

	Portsdown Tunnels - Invasion Defences - Spigot Mortar
		It could not be found and it must now be assumed that the site has been destroyed.
		The Spigot Mortar or "Blacker Bombard" was invented by Lieutenant-Colonel Blacker with the aim of providing cheap and easily produced weapons after most of the British Armys heavy equipment had been lost at Dunkirk.
		Other field weapons invented for the same purpose during this period were the Northover Projector and the Smith Gun.
	www.portsdown-tunnels.org.uk /invasion_defences/spigot_mortar.html (541 words)

	BLI \| The BLI story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Development was scaled down as the very large fabrication facilities at Buxton were turned over to war production.
		The PIAT anti tank weapon and the Blacker Bombard mortar were produced in large numbers, the Bombard being used extensively in the defence of Moscow.
		Many of the old kilns the company operated were closed down as it proved impossible to get them to conform to the flout regulations, although two kilns at Buxton Central Quarry were fitted with closed tops which also had the effect of increasing the production rate.
	www.buxtonlime.co.uk /pages/aboutbli.html (1245 words)

	British Archaeology, no 40, December 1998: Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Training was conducted on whatever local land was available, the Home Guard having a need for open tracts of uncultivated land to practice with the sub-artillery it was issued with from 1941 onwards.
		Of the three artillery pieces, it is the Blacker Bombard that has left tangible signs of its use by the Home Guard (the other two were more mobile).
		Also used by the army for close defence of static sites, the Blacker Bombard was emplaced on a base of four cruciform legs, or onto a stainless steel pin sunk into a fixed concrete cylindical pedestal giving the piece a 360° traverse.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba40/ba40feat.html (4055 words)

	PanzerAce.net Forum: britsh hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Additionally, the weapon had to be accurate enough to hit a moving tank, but in 1941 rocket technology was still in it's infancy.
		Before the war a retired officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Blacker, had made a number of cheap weapons in his own work shop, among which was a large spigot mortar, known as the Blacker Bombard.
		It was suggested that a smaller version of this could be used as an infantry launcher.
	www.panzerace.net /pzforum/forum_posts.asp?TID=118&PN=1 (2293 words)

	OTHER DEFENCES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With the expected Nazi invasion of Britain imminent, it was crucial that as many armaments as possible were produced in the shortest possible time to re-equip the returning troops of the BEF and the troops of the Home Army.
		The 29mm Spigot Mortar, also called the 'Blacker Bombard' after it's designer, Lieutenant Colonel Blacker, was developed as a relatively cheap weapon that could be mass-produced.
		This mortar dispensed with the expensive conventional mortar barrel, using a steel rod, or 'spigot', instead.
	www.somersetpillboxes.co.uk /other_defences.htm (1675 words)

	WHR Project Phase 3 - UB64
		The left-hand picture below (Jan Woods, WHLR Ltd) shows the northern end of the Plas y Nant river bridge (UB64) and adjacent trackbed on July 12th 2002, with the bridge fenced off and partially stripped.
		Trackbed stripping and undergrowth clearance made the adjacent WW2 base for a Home Guard "Blacker Bombard" mortar bomb launcher (see Welsh Highland Heritage no.12 [June 2001], p.6) on the trackbed much more visible (close-up view on the right); there was previously another of these bases in the Aberglaslyn Pass.
		In the first days of July 2002 the contractors started establishing a new access and work site at Plas y Nant, adjacent to the river bridge and the site of the old halt.
	www.bangor.ac.uk /ml/whr/phase3-ub64.htm (1429 words)

	Anti-tank weapons - Page 2 - Aircraft of World War II - Warbird Forums
		The BOYS was well known for its fantastically vicious kick when fired as was the PIAT.
		The Blacker Bombard was effective but it's mount was heavy and made it very hard to transport even with the legs removed.
		Ive handelled both a Boys and a PIAT which is a beast of thing to **** and needed both feet on the thing to compress the spring.
	www.ww2aircraft.net /forum/ww2-general/anti-tank-weapons-590-2.html (909 words)

	PIAT - Wikimedia Commons
		Unlike the US bazooka and its German copy, the Panzerschreck, the PIAT could be used safely in enclosed spaces which made it more useful in close-combat and for hiding in houses.
		pl: Projector Infantry Anti Tank (PIAT) - (inna nazwa Blacker Bombard) brytyjski granatnik przeciwpancerny z okresu drugiej wojny światowej.
		This page was last modified 19:09, 27 April 2006.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/PIAT (118 words)

	Surrey Defences Survey homepage
		If you are interested in the area around National Grid Reference SU836457 then the appropriate 10km grid square is SU84.
		Archaeologists excavating a spigot mortar (Blacker Bombard) launch pit in Farnham Park.
		The site was only discovered when the steel 'pin' (centre top of 'thimble') caught on a mowing machine.
	www.shepheard.plus.com /sds (570 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Home Guard Recollections at Saunders Roe
		There was an anti-aircraft gun site at Whippingham, opposire the school, it is recorded that they shot down an enemy plane from 37,000 ft. At Seaholme, the Home Gurad had 3 Marlen M/C guns mounted in framework, and synchronised to fire together.
		I remember one Sunday morning we took an anti-tank weapon out to the downs at the back of the Island for a try out, a Northover Projector (Blacker Bombard).
		It fired a bottle type grenade 2 dia, they did not seem very pleased with it.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/82/a4292282.shtml (1344 words)

	Untitled
		It guards a road crossing over a small river and the approach to the nearby RAF Mildenhall.
		This group consists of four rifle/machine gun posts and one has a Blacker Bombard spigot mortar base outside.
		The fifth one (pictured) has a mounting for a larger gun and two light machine gun ports.
	www.century20war.co.uk /page8.html (1070 words)

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		The spigot mortar bases were allotted to the Home Guard.
		These small cylindrical mountings, which are usually spotted because of their shiny metal spikes, were designed for the 29mm spigot mortar, or Blacker Bombard as it was also known.
		The weapon could be moved to different positions as required.
	www.edp24.co.uk /Content/Leisure/Walks/asp/Holme.asp (666 words)

	Tabletop Terrain - Modelling for Mordheim, Warhammer Fantasy, 40k and Flames of War » Tweaking my FOW Force
		Yes, I reckon the US Bazooka was a far more sensible design.
		The PIAT was a smaller version of the ‘Blacker Bombard’ design…which was a spigot launched mortar!
		Apparently the only people unlucky enough to use these in the field were the Indian colonial forces in North Africa who picked up a shipment that arrived on the docks when nobody else wanted them :).
	www.tabletop-terrain.com /index.php/archives/2005/06/23/406 (460 words)

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