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Hi all,
I have a P14 rifle in my collection that sports the following unusual marking:
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...IMGP0109-1.jpg
Just wondering if anyone has come across the same type of thing? I've had suggesrions of BBC home guard and BBC prop department, but I think it's high time I found out for sure :)
Thanks,
Paul.
It's conceivable that it was issued to some BBC detachment. I was just looking at a photo the other day of a group of LNR home guard types all taking aim on a railway platform with their MkIII Ross rifles.
Looks pantograph engraved though, and with that flat machined for the purpose, would they have bothered in 1940-41? Only if they had the means to do it "in house" I would suggest. Font is a bit modern perhaps too.
Doubt its anything to do with the broadcaster, either as an LDV weapon or as props department property - UK has/had several large specialist props companies with vast weapons collections that the BBC and other production companies rented.
Looks more like a private rack number, such as a club gun or school cadet force.
The British Broadcasting Corporation used to own various firearms as props, but they disposed of them many years ago now and just hire stuff as needed these days.
You might want to move this over to the P14/M17 forum.