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I remember pulling one cartridge apart.
It didn't have powder,,,
It had something that looked like 2" of very thin pasta.
Was that what they called Cordite?
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Yes, that is Cordite. Propellant in the form of a cord, right?
It came out of the powder mill in the form of a rope wound on a reel.
The ammo plant would feed it off the reel and cut it to length - powder charge given in the number of strands in the rope and cut length to the 1/20th inch instead of grain weight.
The section of rope would be inserted into the partly formed case, which was necked down
after the Cordite went in.