If only we had a time machine! Charnwood offered my friend & I thirty L42's in the chests for 500 GBP plus VAT apiece. IIRC VAT was 15% at the time, so they'd have cost 590 all in. I declined the...
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If only we had a time machine! Charnwood offered my friend & I thirty L42's in the chests for 500 GBP plus VAT apiece. IIRC VAT was 15% at the time, so they'd have cost 590 all in. I declined the...
It was in Rob Hallam's personal collection & now resides in Australia with a forum member.;)
Hello Michael,
I just remembered a few details about another Savage Mk1 4T that I used to own. It's probably still in the UK somewhere, but sadly no longer mine. It is the only...
Very valid points. I don't know how relevant this observation is, but one thing I have definitely noticed over the years, from re-fitting many sets or part sets of pads to original 4T's, is that the...
IIRC PL told me that when he was researching the book he discovered that the pads/bracket fitting & machining was indeed carried out in two parts. The pads were made & fitted, but the precise...
I'd noticed it was now yours Bindi. I used to see it often, twenty five years ago. It was one of the batch that Charnwood got & Rob kept it for their collection (after exporting it to Canada & then...
During the '90's belonged to Rob Hallam & was part of the Charnwood collection.
Hello Michael. Sorry I've been a little slow to respond, but tonight I had a look at the three rifles for the markings on either side of the bolt way on the rear of the body. (None have a receiver...
1941 Mk1 0C3XX 6 groove barrel. Matching bolt. Woodwork original Savage 4T wood but from another Savage rifle. Forend serialled 8866 (?C8866) & butt bears S51 in usual place & scope number 6707.
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