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Launch Kit, Rocket, Grapnel, Wadsworth Mount

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    Case, 31.5 x 27.5 x 7 inches, heavy duty pasteboard, compartmentalized [adapted from case for Adams & Westlake Co., Elkhart, Ind., for Portable Field Lighting, Item # 2; another trunk label reads: Trunk Made by C.C. Conn. Ltd., Elkhart, Ind. - Band Instrument], but holding grapnel rocket launch kit. Kit [originally] includes: (1) Rocket, Naval ordnance, standard 1.25 inch caliber... [Not located in storage crate April 2021 - see Notes field] 2) Rectangular assembly, aluminum, of two aluminum rods secured together with bars with nuts and bolts and wing nuts. (3) Reel, Ft. Pierce type, steel, 1,500 ft capacity, with eight upright equi-distant series of 14 rods, sliced pie-piece fashion, each series with seven rods and each rod, silver-gray color, with threads on bottom for screwing into reel, each rod 6 inches long. [Not found in Storage Crate for A19771118000 - See A19771118002 and A19771118003 for associated reels.] (4) Rods, extra, 47; each 6 inches long (5) Cylinder, with disc in center and wide groove along one half length of cylinder; overall, steel, gray; two short brass colored chains attached to cylinder, with shackles on ends, steel (6) Flashlight, band-aid box shape and approximate size; painted olive drab; glass in front and glass bulb; fabric straps attached and black rubber insulated electrical wire protruding from box, with two-hole female plug at end.

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01/19/2022

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