Mystery Scout Regt. Mk IIs

[Lance]

Apologies if this scope has been discussed before but I cannot find any information if it has. I am posting this on multiple boards in the hope that I might find someone who knows who manufactured or rebuilt this Scout Regt. Mk IIs.

Currently the known manufacturers for the Scout Regt. Mk IIs are: Broadhurst Clarkson (B&C Co), Houghton Butcher Manufacturing (HBM), AL Vincent, HC Ryland (HCR), Kodak Eastman Co (KEC), and Howard Grubb & Parsons Co (HGP).

This example is: PEOSLTR. I.-029

Possibly Italian, Dutch, Greek???

Many thanks

[Peter Laidler]

Dear o' dear. The bane of the Instrument workshops were the odd-ball manufacturers. While it was said in the Tech Instructions that they were all made to the same drawing spec, you can take it from me that they weren't. Or, if they were, why didn't the parts interchange, even after a bit of selective fitting or chasing with files.

Anyone that was good with them, and that wasn't me, would keep a couple of the odd-balls in his desk drawer, '.......just in case...' As I remember it, even the vulnerable OC lenses differed radially which meant a bit of machining the OG cup. I think I still have a B&C OG here......

[Surpmil]

Does it have the Broad Arrow anywhere?

If not, I'd guess it is just gibberish put on to fill the space either before someone pinched it out of whatever factory it was made in, or by some post-war operation putting them together from parts.

There's not even a fragment that is intelligible: you've got the "LT" with superscript "T" which would be part of "LTD" if the "D" was there, but it's not. "R.I." with a misplaced period by the "R"?

I've got an old book that lists the members of the Scientific Instrument Makers Association of GB and all the known scope builders are in there, but there's nothing like that.

"-029" is nothing like "No. 029" etc. either: not the normal and approved(?) markings.

[snipershot1944]

Perhaps made in India?

[Lance]

Thanks guys, there is no broad arrow and a very thin black external thermoset finish. I do not remember paying that much for it and initially thought it was an Italian rebuild.

[Peter Laidler]

Some of the RAF issued sniper rifles (I never understood why they'd need No4T's - or even rifles but there you go........) came with a smaller B&C telescope called, if I remember correctly, called a 'Britannic' and another, identical, called a 'Nelson'. Same x20 but shorter and slightly less field of view. Didn't have the big case, just end caps like the rifle.

Does anyone have one of the very late - L42 era - plastic cases for the scout reg scope. Another total waste of time. Made by a small plastics supplier near Theale ( was it MarleyFoam???). The plastic was both brittle and thin. Have it brittle and thick or pliable and thin. But not brittle and thin

[Alan de Enfield]

Some of the RAF issued sniper rifles (I never understood why they'd need No4T's - or even rifles but there you go........) came with a smaller B&C telescope called, if I remember correctly, called a 'Britannic' and another, identical, called a 'Nelson'.

My RAF 4T (you know it well - apparently, many years ago, you used to shoot at the club with its previous owner) appears to have the standard KEC telescope.