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These experiments confirm those made at Dartmoor and elsewhere, and demon¬ 
strate in the clearest manner that the varieties of field service percussion fuze 
known as Ereeth and Dyer are not to be depended on, a large percentage being 
either premature or blind. 
On a careful review of the whole question, the Committee made the following 
recommendations :— 
1. The immediate withdrawal of the U time fuze for breech-loading guns from 
both land and sea service, using segment shell with percussion fuzes for bursting on 
graze, and shrapnel shell with wood time fuzes when the nature of the operations 
requires the use of a time shell. 
2. The immediate withdrawal of all field service percussion fuzes of Ereeth and 
Dyer patterns from land and sea service; the cases being made available for con¬ 
version into C percussion fuzes with new safety pin if required. 
3. The withdrawal by degrees of all Armstrong C percussion fuzes with and 
Without safety pins, for-.alteration of safety pin and re-priming. 
4. The issue from store, in lieu of the above, of Armstrong C percussion fuzes 
with a safety pin of improved pattern, as lately devised in Royal Laboratory. 
These fuzes to be previously re-primed with cap arrangement. 
5. This will provide for immediate necessities, but the Committee have in view 
a fuze which they think will prove to be superior to any of the above patterns, and 
they recommend that experiments be instituted with the new safety percussion fuze 
proposed by Sir W. Armstrong and Co. as a fuze to carry in loaded shell. 700 of 
these fuzes to be ordered at once, and submitted to the following tests :—• 
100 to be fired in segment shell from 12-pr. breech-loading gun, to burst on 
graze. 
100 to be fired in common shell from 9-pr. muzzle-loading gun, to burst on 
graze. 
200 to be distributed to batteries and travelled in the limber boxes, 100 fixed in 
unfilled common and segment shells, and 100 carried in the usual boxes. 
The main object of this trial is to ascertain whether there is any liability to work 
loose, either in the fuze or in the projectile, when travelling. 
100 to be submitted to the usual Laboratory tests, including jolting. 
200 to be sent to H.M.S. “Excellent.” 
The above fuzes to be primed with cap composition. 
The above recommendations have been approved, with the exception of the with¬ 
drawal of the j E time fuze from the naval service. The Admiralty wish to keep 
this fuze so long as B.L* guns are supplied for boat service. 
