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The bomb consists of a thin tin-plate can of square cross-section, to one face of which are soldered two corrugated stiffeners, which, serve to increase the strength of the can and also act as distance pieces between the can and the drop bar of the 250-lb. Small Bomb Container. A buster container, to take the fuze No. 854 Mk 1 and its buster, and an offset filling hole are provided in the top of the can, together with a large circular distance piece.
The buster container is closed, during transit and storage, by a rolledthread tin-plate, transit plug. The filling hole is permanently sealed by a rolled-thread filling-hole cap, seating: on a sealing disc. This cap must in no circumstances be unscrewed from the bomb; and, as it is fitted with a short Tommy bar, it may be readily distinguished from the transit plug.
Three handles for lifting the bomb are provided, and at two diagonally opposite corners of the can are soldered metal loops for the attachment of a fabric tail, which acts as a stabilizer to the bomb.
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