Enfield No 1 Mk VI 1930

[superbee]

This rifle is now on gunbroker if anybody is interested.

[limpetmine]

Second go round. Didn't sell for $1001.00 the first time.
Everybody now knows where the buyers are in the market.

[Surpmil]

My No1 MkVI is one of the ones re-configured to No4. I bought this 21 years ago, and it had a No 4 buttstock on it (no stock marking disc). I bought an NOS stock and forstner bit to fit a marking disc, purely for aesthetics. The original cypher and designation had been scrubbed off, and a five digit serial number stamped in its place. It is 23560A. This number is stamped on the barrel and bolt. Interestingly, the barrel has a 41 date on the opposite side of the barrel serial number. A large BB 22 is stamped underneath the barrel. Majority of parts are EFD marked, with a mix of S126 and N79 parts thrown in. When I first got it, it was packed with cosmoline beneath the wood. No import marks and no BNP proof either.

Is this the "N" for Royal Navy use? Any similar markings on other No1 MkVI, A suffix or No4 MkI trials rifles? In a way it would have made sense to allocate these rifles to the Navy.

[5thBatt]

On my No1 MkVI

[Peter Laidler]

Ah....., 'S'......... Salvation Army!

[Surpmil]

Anyone know at what point a capital "N" ceased to be the naval marking on small arms as it was before WWI and perhaps during?

A couple of thousand non-standard rifles? Navy would be a good place for them seems to me: exchange them for SMLE's. The Navy still had theirs in 1940; the Army was rather short by June I believe.