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I displayed this cutaway along with some very different Australian Lees at a show and one of the locals looked at it and commented to his buddy that I might have won if I had replaced that broken stock with a good one. I guess you can't please everyone.
Any way this is a good picture from a different perspective of the lighening holes drilled into the butt stock . An yes it is serial number 1 of the Australian cutaway series. The barrel is milled out for a distance to make it unfireable.
Ya wanna sell?:super:
Re: the question mark inverted, I recall this symbol being used by one of the iron foundries, could it be to show the barrels were made from their steel?
Peter, and others:
The drawing reference is: S.A.I.D. 1317F.
Does that help?
The same drawing also shows "alternate" machining of the rivets in the rear handguard.
It also shows the "anti-cracking" strips in the rear handguard as a feature; very odd.
You mean these?
Attachment 37608
Them's the ones......
Except, the one in your picture looks like it may actually be a repair for the crack extending through the insert. If the insert were there from the factory, the crack would not have extended through the repair strip.
My very scruffy general layout drawing for a later pattern SMLE shows the rear handguard with two "repair" strips, specified as being "walnut wood", fitted as a "normal" feature.