Long Branch L42A1 Transit Chest

Anybody out there own one of the rare Long Branch converted L42A1's No 50L0027 or know of its whereabouts?

I wonder if the Armourer who scribed the number on that tape was a tad myopic? I've got a 30L0027 but not a 50L0027.

Peter, anyone in your workshop have a pair of glasses made from the bottom of old Coke bottles?:lol:

Cheers,

Simon.

50 or 30...... It just shows how easy it is/was to get serial numbers mixed up. Then the WOCS ledgers get changed, then fiction becomes fact and then the 'correct' serial number is overstamped and then......... and then........ The last bit is a load of confusion so that eventualkly they call the correct number 'lost' and one of the special SA74A xxxxx numbers gets issued. No4/5's ,Stens, Signal pistols and Sterlings were notorious for it

Hey Simon. I resemble that remark! As a young armorer in the US Army back in the '80s, they'd never let me go to sniper school but made me an armorer instead so I could work on the weapons instead. I was about 20/400 and wore "Coke bottles"!! I had my eyes repaired in '94 but when I turned 40 it was all downhill again!! Ain't life great?

It's hardly surprising numbers are misread with light stamps, worn stamps etc. I've got a S.M.L.E. in the Armoury that looks, even under close examination, to be a 1918 Enfield, however under a glass it's clear it's a 1916.

Cheers,

Simon.

FTR will dull those markings too sometimes making them hard to read without a magnifier.

Brian,

I know exactly what you mean. My headlights are rapidly heading toward dipped beam these days. Infact I've often found the only way I can find the finer details of something is to photograph it with my phone then zoom in on the bloody image!!!

Cheers,

Simon

Simon...is the long branch L42 # in your records? what year was it converted?

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Brian,

I know exactly what you mean. My headlights are rapidly heading toward dipped beam these days. Infact I've often found the only way I can find the finer details of something is to photograph it with my phone then zoom in on the bloody image!!!

Cheers,

Simon

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I'm a watchmaker and blind in one eye. I use my eye loupe for a lot more than watch repair. Like looking at pictures on my phone. So yes, I'm blind in one eye and can't see out of the other.

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I wonder if the Armourer who scribed the number on that tape was a tad myopic? I've got a 30L0027 but not a 50L0027.

Peter, anyone in your workshop have a pair of glasses made from the bottom of old Coke bottles?:lol:

Cheers,

Simon.

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From my research, 50L0027 is probably the correct serial number.