No.4 MK. I (T) made from Trials rifle - now at National Army Museum in New Zealand
Photos were shown early in this thread of a Trials No. 4 MK. I converted into a sniper rifle and on display in the national Army Museum in New Zealand. I wrote to the museum and here is what they kindly responded with. Their answers are between the >> and <<
RESEARCH QUESTIONS:
1. What is the serial number of the rifle? E.g. A 1989 (Note that there is a space between the A and numbers) >> A 0789 <<
2. What is the year of manufacture on the rifle? If a Trials No. 4 MK. I then it would be 1931 or 1933 usually (the last digit sometimes being over-stamped) >> 1933 <<
3. Serial number of the telescope >> 6212 <<
4. Model of Telescope. If the scope model final digit is covered by the bracket, the OS. Number will tell us which mark it is. >> No.32 Mk. I <<
5. Maker of scope (if known) >> W . Watson & Son <<
6. What number(s) if any are stamped into the top of the small of the grip? This was where they marked the serial number of the scope. Numbers for any previous scopes were X or barred out. >> 6212 <<
7. The facility doing the conversion placed their mark. This one likely has a tiny Enfield examiner's stamp on top of the front scope pad rather than the 1/4" high Holland and Holland "S51" stamp found on the underside of the butt on most No. 4 MK. I (T) rifles. >> Enfield <<
"This Weapon was one of two given to the NZ Army by Maj General Bernard Freyberg VC, GCMG, KBE, DSO for use by the NZ Army. It was decided by Army HQ that they would be best utilised by the School of Infantry. When they were made obsolete with the into of the C3 P-H these No.4 MkI (T) rifles were made into Sniper Cse ["Course" presumably] Trophies. The National Army Museum rescued them from destruction after the then Chief of Army directed that all Trophy Weapons be destroyed in the early 90’s for “security reasons”"
Terrence Seymour,
AC Weapons and Ammunition,
National Army Museum,
Waiouru,
New Zealand
Information from his emails responding to Colin M. Stevens