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Says he was called up for the RHA at St Johns Wood barracks. He is still alive, aged 90.

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One of a number of 1950s photos on Getty Images showing a reasonably well-known soccer player of the time, Cliff Jones,...

That's J.H. Steward of Bristol https://jhs-eyewear.com/pages/jh-steward-bisley
I seldom come across one of these with the lens still in but I've got one of the coloured filters which is about .411"

Some batches of HXP have been found to have random WW2 corrosive rounds packed in the mix.

You will need to specify whether Mk.1 or Mk.2 action.

There is a reference to it in one of the editions of Skennerton.

Sile made some of the high-end stocks that P-H used.

I think it's about the (then) normal arrangement of swivels only up the front band and in front of the magazine. Rifle regiments attached slings to butt and the band.

The EY mark appears as early as 1904, long before grenade projecting came back into fashion.


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Counterbore it, the Soviets did the same on all those M-Ns they refurbished.

They make reference (in 1915) to BSA selling the WO their accumulation of sub-standard bbls that run .305" in the bore

The trouble with converting any front-locking action to .22 was, and is, feeding the tiny cartridge across the 'dead space' where the lugs lock up. Rear-locking actions like the Lee-Enfield present...

I think it's just the usual 'B' that's double-stamped.

I saw nothing to say these were salvage, the whole trend of it implied they were new.

The Brooklyn-class cruiser USS Phoenix (CL-46) was also present at Pearl that day. Sold to Argentina in 1951, and modernised several times, she remained in service as General Belgrano until 1982,...

No, they were for the Ministry's inspectors, not the Army's working in the field.

No, there's no further information (lucky to find this much, I think)

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Sub-standard barrels,...

The papers clearly show they were in a price-fixing ring with BSA, with regular consultations on the prices to be quoted for even quite trivial items. Such arrangements were probably not illegal, at...

In researching surviving papers from the London Small Arms Co. recently I came across the following for Sht L.E. barrels -
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They would use the village blacksmith's forge for preference but it necessary they have a travelling forge for the farrier in the regimental baggage train.

Many contractors did not wait for a formal contract to be signed, but got Instructions To Proceed and started immediately.

I found one of those in a box of standard ones - the dealers were asleep at the wheel that day.

A cable from British Army Staff Washington dated 31-8-42 notes ' Present USA and Cdn rifles have Mark two (tip-up) sights. '

It may have represented reduction in machine time, or cost, or both.

The list of machining operations at Savage makes no reference to manufacturing the magazine at all, so they may have pushed...