No.5 "jungle carbine" question

[RobD]

When I was a lad I spent an unforgettable evening with a Boer War veteran whose father, Henry Lugg, had taken part in the defense of Rorke's Drift.

[nhetzer]

The serial number in A3484.

[Aussie48]

A nice find then no 3,484 off the production line at Faz or taking into account the pre production marked FE the 4,484 off the line.

[5thBatt]

A nice find then no 3,484 off the production line at Faz or taking into account the pre production marked FE the 4,484 off the line.

Actually it would be no 13,483* off the line, 14,483* taking into account the pre-production 1000.
I have rifle no 524 (or 1524)


* the rifle numbers went from 1 to 9999, there was not a rifle with the No 10000 so you have to subtract 1 number from every prefix, ie rifle s/n A1 was the 10,000th rifle.

[Aussie48]

Of course sorry your right, a very nice looking Faz there 5thBatt. I wonder if we will ever know the true number manufactured as even Skennerton has come across rifles serialed well outside the published final figures.

[5thBatt]

Of course sorry your right, a very nice looking Faz there 5thBatt. I wonder if we will ever know the true number manufactured as even Skennerton has come across rifles serialed well outside the published final figures.

The total of 169,807 often quoted as Fazakerley's production is in fact the production up to rifle serial number S8823 which would have been assembled October/November 1945, this, plus production continuing untill the end of 1947 & prefix AC, we must add about another 97,000 giving us a total of around 267,000 Fazakerley No5s

[colfi]

I have two No 5's, both were brought back from Malaya, as it was known theen, by my older Brothers, my father, a WW 1 veteran, wouldn't allow me to tough them. They lived in the loft and were forgotten about until Dad dies in 1966 when Mum decided to live with my Sister and I moved to Australia. I took the carbines with me, a 1944 and a 1945 dated model, both have blackened stocks and are the plain wood fore-end types.

Like a lot have said, Neither my Father, WW1 and WW2, nor my Brothers, WW2 , Malaya and Cyprus, would say much about their adventures in the real war zones.