Steel Toolbox, Modified 1943 WW2 British Ammunition Box

1943 WW2 British Ammunition Box

Modified into a Tool Box

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This item is an original 1943 WW2 ammunition box (made of steel) that was converted into a tool box by a British engineer in the early 1950s. It was handed over to a local fitter in the early 1960s and later given to me in 1980 by this fitter when he retired.

This item has only minimal modification and it's as original as it looks, and I believe it has been lightly painted once only. If you like what you see, please write something nice to me or make me a good offer for this item anytime.

 Meanwhile, here's a WW2 story told to me by an eyewitness many years ago. A few days after the surrender of the Japanese invading troops in 1945, a number of British army officers and scores of ethnic Indian soldiers employed by the British forces moved to a foothill location at Mount Faber. They dug up tens of ammunition boxes (quite the same as the item on display) which were buried deep in the ground. That eyewitness was nearby when he saw a high-ranking British army officer opened and checked those ammunition boxes packed with British sovereign gold coins (each sovereign coin has about a quarter troy ounce of pure gold). All those boxes were lifted up by those soldiers onto a large military truck.

I have read that the British forces might have shifted some of Great Britain's physical gold reserves into Singapore when WW2 broke out in Europe in 1939. Then Singapore was known as Fortress Singapore, and as the British might have thought that it was quite safe to store something precious here, not knowing a few years later that the Japanese invading troops would occupy Singapore. Those gold coins were secretly buried in Singapore for a good period of three years. Just a thought here, but (who knows?) then you may want to think that there might be one or two boxes left behind, still buried in the ground of that foothill.

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