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This item serves as a high capacity mobile flamethrower; it is used on trailers, tanks, and armored vehicles.

There are no markings of identification value.

This equipment is mounted on a two wheeled, rubber tired trailer, and weighs 1750 pounds complete. The overall length is 8 feet, the height is 5 feet, and the width is 5 feet 8 inches. Fitted on the front of the trailer is a "V" shaped armor plate, 0.4 inches thick. The fuel tank holds 40 gallons of fuel, 35 of which can be pumped out during ope-ration of the flamethrower. The centrifugal fuel pump is driven by a small gasoline engine. The projector is mounted on a pivot and can traverse 90 degrees; the maximum eleva-tion is 30 degrees, and the depression, 10 degrees.

The fuel ignition system consists of a one quart gasoline tank with an air pump, pres-sure gauge and a small pipe leading to the muzzle of the projector and terminating in a spray nozzle. Next to this muzzle is a spark plug which receives its power from the high tension coil mounted behind the armor shield.

The flamethrower has a range of 35 to 40 yards and discharges fuel at the rate of 1.5 gallons per second and the total duration of the jet is 24 seconds.

This model flamethrower is also used on AFV's such as the Pz.Kw. III Model L and an armored half-track; the latter vehicle has one flamethrower on each side.

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