STICKY BOMBS?

Researching some local history for a book of historical anecdotes we are compiling about our village, I came across some fascinating pieces in the local newspaper.
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FRIDAY, June 27, 1947
Local MP (Member of Parliament) Lt.-Col. Bromley-Davenport, speaking during the Committee Stage of the Finance Bill, urged removal of the purchase tax on tooth brushes: ‘a poor bill [which] already has too many teeth in it’.and then...
LOCAL FIRM’S STICKY BOMB CLAIM
A submission to the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors has been made by Messrs Kay Brothers, flypaper manufacturers of Stockport. Chemist H. J Hartley was involved in the design and development of the ‘Sticky Bomb’ of which 2,500,000 were made.
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This sparked a thought. Some time ago I wrote a piece for a magazine about 'sticky bombs'. I then looked on the Internet. To my great dismay, website after website confuses true 'Sticky Bombs' (= the British ‘Grenade, Hand, Anti-Tank No. 74’) with the stockinet 'Gammon Bomb', named after Captain R J Gammon, MC (Jock), and used extensively by both British and American paratroops in Normandy.

Surprise, surprise. The culprit misleading so many people is that all-time accurate (NOT!) movie 'Saving Private Ryan'. In which people apparently extemporize explosives, socks, fuses, and some sticky tar to create a firework capable of destroying a Tiger tank. Or at least... a T34 thinly disguised. Oh dear.

If any reader would like to read my original article, about actual 'Sticky Bombs' and more!,  please feel free to request a copy via 'contact me' on my website.