Talk:Stokes mortar

Calibre?

Several other sources give a calibre of 76.2 mm, the same as its designation. Is there a source for the stated calibre of 81.2 mm? 72.66.50.42 (talk) 00:53, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes. The measurement 81 mm given for the bomb held by the Australian War Memorial ( http://cas.awm.gov.au ). I have also had this confirmed by people in possession of 3 other bombs, all are 81 mm. See http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=100707&st=0&#entry946152 and http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/stockes-pre-1918-t13202.html . The "76.2 mm" you find quoted are just 3 inches translated to metric, by people who assume that the 3-inch in the name is to be taken literally. Rcbutcher (talk) 01:14, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Accuracy

Given the original, unstabilized projectiles, how accurate a weapon was the Stokes mortar?--172.190.46.188 (talk) 04:30, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Inflated Rewards

Did Stokes really get "royalties of £1 per Stokes mortar shell produced"?. This seems like a boat load of moolah even for such a nifty weapon. An average factory worker's wages were less than a couple of quid a week even in 1918. If he was getting this kind of money Stokes would have been very wealthy by the end of the war. Silent Billy (talk) 05:00, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Quite impossible. According to the Weapons of the Trench War, 1914-1918 p. 159, Stokes bomb cost 2£, so 50% of royalties is way to high - and he would get ca. 15 mln pounds by the end of the war. Possibly he got £1 for a mortar tube, which would make him quite wealthy anyway (15 000 £ was a lot of money in 1918). Deleted the info, pending solid sources--Felis domestica (talk) 09:32, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

First Action

The article currently says when the weapon was designed and when it was rejected by the army. Missing is the info when it was first tested in the field, or when it was distributed en masse. For example it would be interesting to know whether it was already used in the Gallipoli Campaign or in the Battle of Loos. --BjKa (talk) 20:28, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Past tense

I was just wondering why the article is in past tense if there are still surviving Stokes mortars. I thought you could only use past tense once there aren't any surviving examples left. NamelessLameless (talk) 21:16, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

Wz.18 Mortar

Stokes Mortar was produced in Poland as Wz.18 Mortar http://www.1939.pl/uzbrojenie/polskie/artyleria/m_81mm_wz18_31_1928/index.html WWIIEnjoyer (talk) 22:27, 9 September 2023 (UTC)