Albion made Enfield No.2 MK1**

[Lucite]

I finally got to bring home my enfiled revolver from the store today and now I'm just looking for a little more info on my particular pistol. The most I've learned from it is it was made by Albion motors in 1943 serial C5200 and its all matching.

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[Peter Laidler]

The E250 is the steel batch number of the steel used to make the cylinder. The barrel was uncertified medium carbon steel and frame was mild steel. Good old clunker and like most por certainly a LOT of Enfields in the US, it seems to be missing the landyard loop.

Look up ALBION trucks and busses to learn more about Albion in Gordonstoun near Glasgow who were sub contracted to make them. Alas, production was slow and soon they reverted to doing what they did best.............. Making trucks and busses.

Without doubt, from the phosphate and paint finish of it, it is an ex British Army revolver

[Lucite]

Thanks for the info, but now after doing a take down to clean out the crud I'm having an issue with the extractor issue not retracting when the action is fully open

[Peter Laidler]

Also the foresight has been cropped. Should be readily available but make sure you replace it like for like as they come in a centre, left or right.

As for the extractor not returning................ I suggest you buy and read a little pink covered Skennerton book about these revolvers. You'll also learn a lot more too. These things were finely tuned and you need to........... anyway, even though I've done many hundreds of them, I couldn't even start to explain on a sheet of paper. But I think you'll find that if you flick it hard...., like you mean business, the extractor will retract at the end of the break cycle

I forgot to add but during the 60's, we used to file the top overhang of the left grip flat and polish it so that it was easier to get to and operate the barrel catch with your thumb

[jmoore]

I forgot to add but during the 60's, we used to file the top overhang of the left grip flat and polish it so that it was easier to get to and operate the barrel catch with your thumb

Well, $%^&!!! I always thought that was a Bubba thing! Passed on several just for that reason.

That is an odd front sight. It's short front to rear. Seems a bit tall, also.

Here's an example:

[Lucite]

Well I seem to have fixed the ejector problem, by the looks of it from the years of use the the metal on the leading edge(porting that contacts the frame) of the ejector cam flowed out a bit so I took a hammer and tapped it back into place then polished the leading edge with a super fine grit stone. Now the tricky bit, finding an unmodified left front sight blade.

[Brit plumber]

You can probably make a new sight blade by hand. Have a look if you need a Left Right or central sight. A central means the works halved.

[Peter Laidler]

I'm not so sure that your sight is a left handed offset Lucite as you'd see the distinct milled offset if it was L or R. Someone correct me, but I don't seem to remember the blades being marked L or R because the offset was quite clear because it was a .010" step - even to a blind man!

I'm not sure of how much the offset altered the MPI. Having shot/fired and 'zeroed' ( I use the term in its loosest sense, believe me.....) hundreds of them, then so long as they hit the fig-11 at 20yards that was OK. But the offset in relation to the MPI was minimal.

[Lucite]

I'm not so sure that your sight is a left handed offset Lucite as you'd see the distinct milled offset if it was L or R. Someone correct me, but I don't seem to remember the blades being marked L or R because the offset was quite clear because it was a .010" step - even to a blind man!

The picture doesn't show it but I'm pretty sure it is a left offset the sight is milled with a step that's about 0.005-0.01 the step being on the right hand side of the sight.

You can probably make a new sight blade by hand. Have a look if you need a Left Right or central sight. A central means the works halved.

I was thinking about that but I don't have access to a lathe and a mill.

[nwptrains]

Heres a picture of my 1943 Albion No 2 Mk 1**. Except for the paint they could be brothers .



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