Lost Mustard Gas Bombs
Thank you for the input. There is no doubt that in "this" case that Y3 and Y25 was shipped and head-filled into 1,000lb bombs at Randle.
The 10.000 mustard gas bombs and 2,000 inert ones is such a precise amount that I wonder if perhaps they were for an overseas order.
In the mid-1950s I can think of many potential customers but a total of 12,000 bombs would by standards have had to have been moved initially by rail.
We can trace most of the mustard ever made in the UK and its eventual destruction but to lose 12,000 bombs is a big hole in our calculations. Someone out there must have knowledge of them.