No.4 Grenade Projector Case

[pedro243]

Hi All,

I have just purchased a No.4grenade projector but it does not have the leather case.

Does anyone know of any for sale?

[FlightRN]

Manymembers are from different countries. Where are you looking to find and purchase a pouch?

[pedro243]

Manymembers are from different countries. Where are you looking to find and purchase a pouch?

Hi FlightRN, I am from Western Australia. I am happy to get it shipped

[browningautorifle]

Does anyone know of any for sale?

You can post an ad on the WTB forum and see what happens...

[pedro243]

You can post an ad on the WTB forum and see what happens...

Thank you, i will do that now

[Peter Laidler]

The reason why the leather cases are rare is detailed on another thread!

[browningautorifle]

The reason why the leather cases are rare is detailed on another thread!

Here's the answer from a 2010 post by PL... "We had the old No4 energa launcher for years after the No4 was withdrawn and when the 'new' SLR launcher came on stream in the early 60's, the SLR launchers were put into the ample No4 launcher leather carrying pouch and the launchers were disposed of locally. That's why the pouches are harder to get hold of than the launchers. Some were available on Ebay a couple of years ago at £13 or so but long since gone by now!"

[Peter Laidler]

The same sort of thing happened with scabbards to some extent....... The No9 and useless No7 bayonets were withdrawn a couple of years after the No4 rifles were slowly withdrawn. It too ages for them to finally go from the training and tail-end units, believe me. The quartermasters were told to keep the No5 scabbards for the new issue L1A1 rifle bayonets. Which they duly did. Alas, the new L1 rifles came with bayonets.......... and scabbards. The old scabbards went the way of the grenade launchers. After a couple of years, straight into the scrap. I wish I'd kept a few more than I did!

Back to grenade launchers. War Stores - or Mobilization Stores still had No1 EY wire bound rifles into the late 60's as I recall. There was a big programme to overhaul hundreds of them, distributed to large Field and Base workshops across the UK and Wetter in Germany. Warminster stripped rustproofed, greased, assembled, wire wrapped and preserved hundreds of them as part of what we called a WORP. War Office Repair Programme. Never saw a cup except for the cup that we had to test the fit on the nose cap. Another waste of time......, never saw one again!

[pedro243]

... No1 EY wire bound rifles into the late 60's as I recall...

Peter, do you recall when RFI stopped producing EY rifles? From memory, the one I have was made in 1964.

[Alan de Enfield]

Peter, do you recall when RFI stopped producing EY rifles? From memory, the one I have was made in 1964.

Do you mean EY or GF rifles ?

By no means were all EY rifles converted to GF rifles and not all GF rifles were ex EY rifles, but, it is fair to say that generally GF rifles were conversions of EY rifles to avoid 'wasting' a pefectly good '1st line rifle'.

Peter did post (in 2008) the following regarding GF rifles :

Thanks to former Armourer ‘Robbie’ Robertson who was able to shed light on this. Robbie also commented that ‘………….. we did about 250 of the rifles in 1967 or so but I don’t ever remember seeing any of the actual cups since Korea in the early 50’s. I don’t think we had any!’