Bayonet Question.

[Peter Laidler]

We still had a 'bend box' at the Warminster 34 Command workshops when it effectively closed in 2012 or so - and nobody knew what it was. Mind you, most of the stuff was even beyond an old Armourer like me! I think it could be tested in any plane as it's the steel that is tested. The box had degree marks on a frame marker so you could accurately test it. Most unusual 'thing' was a big roll of the binding wire for No1 EY rifles and new fore-end strengthening bolts

[Flying10uk]

Peter, when the 34 command workshop, Warminster, you mentioned closed did as far as you know things like the "Bend Box" and other historically items of interest which may have been present get saved and passed to, perhaps, a museum or other archive? Hopefully they weren't just dumped in a skip for scrap.

[Peter Laidler]

I took the roll of wire and the gauges and what is best described as '....several other things'. Other stuff like the Bayonet box and the Enfield rest were scrapped

[Colonel Enfield]

I've often wondered, given the similarities between the two rifles - are the bayonets interchangeable?

[browningautorifle]

If you refer to M1917, P14 and P13 bayonets, they are all interchangeable on each other's rifles.