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Hi all,
Something that's puzzled me for a long time about my L1A1...the lower receiver is a 1958 BSA, but on the underside is a 1966-dated Enfield E-within-D mark, along with what looks like a partially obscured (by the pistol grip) NATO stock number. (Looks like it would be 960-0071.)
Would the ED 66 indicate it was repaired or FTR'd at Enfield in 1966?
Are you able to provide a pic of all the the markings?
Its very probable the lower has been replaced and the original serial number indicating BSA manufacture has been reassigned to the new Enfield lower.
NZL1A1 is very probably correct there. The important number is the serial number on the body (the upper receiver) I can only assume that your BSA made rifle body master number also reads UB58A-XXXXX. Sometime in its life, after 1966 (the manufacturing date of the trigger mechanism housing - the TMH - that you call it the lower receiver) the TMH has been replaced for some reason by an Enfield made TMH. Because the body and TMH are a matched set and mated together, the TMH will have been engraved with the master serial number.
Changing/replacing a TMH could be a bit of a long winded job, getting the body locking catch and lever mated up with the lug on the body, so it was deemed to be a Field Workshop repair. This wouldn't have been a factory repair by any means!
Okay, thanks!
I recently picked up an Inglis Mk 1* High Power that had been FTR'd at Enfield in 1963, so that gave me the thought of it being a possible FTR/overhaul mark.