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F46 is Fazakerley 1946.... surely? The original rifle (numbered on the bracket) was probably FTR'd there in 1946. Brackets must have been available for these big FTR programmes
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02-02-2010 04:51 PM
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Originally Posted by
Surpmil
The lens caps are correct. The No42 type had the retaining loop fitted so that it sits where the front ring of a No32 bracket would be.
Ach, so! The ring is more centralized on the length of the connecting strap on the No42 applications. (Went home and found a pic this morning, 'cuz I don't believe me all the time...)
Sorry about that! None of my covers have the loop, I'm fairly sure.
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F46 is Fazakerley 1946.... surely? The original rifle (numbered on the bracket) was probably FTR'd there in 1946. Brackets must have been available for these big FTR programmes
Peter, do you mean the "F46" on the back of the bracket? That's the one I was referring to. I put a box around it in the photo.
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Oh, OK then! I've definitely seen that before on good kit. Don't think its a post-war mark, but I'm just making a SWAG. BTW, the rifle is a 1948 FTR.
Looking through Captain Laidler
's book on the subject, yesterday, I think he mentioned that 416(?) new brackets were released by Hollands' for use in a big post-war rebuild program. Don't know who got them, though, or if its pertinent to this particular assembly.
Last edited by jmoore; 02-03-2010 at 02:34 AM.
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Yes Surpmil, that's the F46 (or is it F48) I was referring to, following on from your noticing it
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OK, is it a pukka mount? Maybe FTR'd when the F46 was added? And here are pics of the N92 mark, indicating that it was made by Dalgleish? Note how the N92 has been partially ground off, I wonder if the FTR had something to do with that? Maybe the same clumsy pair of hands ground the ding in the external upper/outer face of the horizontal bar, and the rough grind marks on the scope rings.
Rob
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Bracket (mount) is odd but nothing "says" its not a WWII part that I can see so far.
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Originally Posted by
RobD
OK, is it a pukka mount? Maybe FTR'd when the F46 was added? And here are pics of the N92 mark, indicating that it was made by Dalgleish? Note how the N92 has been partially ground off, I wonder if the FTR had something to do with that? Maybe the same clumsy pair of hands ground the ding in the external upper/outer face of the horizontal bar, and the rough grind marks on the scope rings.
Rob
Just as sometimes the engraving looks like it was done by a drunken spider, so I guess we sometimes see other parts that show someone new was training that day. I don't know what the turnover in British war factories was like, but workers did tend to skip from job to job, wherever the pay was highest in most countries. (ie: Remington Eddystone had a turnover of 160% in 30 days at one point acc. to Skennerton)
What does the "F46" represent then?
Last edited by Surpmil; 02-03-2010 at 10:52 AM.
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It certainly looks rough enough to be original but what does worry me is that it looks like white metal beneath the paint as opposed to grey phosphate. And the grey phosphate took particularly well on to the cheap old malleable cast iron
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