Quote Originally Posted by Roger Payneicon View Post
Thunderbox, out of curiosity, are the corner mortice joints on your 'new' box larger than those shown in most of the illustrations? I have a late chest that is bronze green & the joints are larger than on the majority of issue cases. I have seen a few others like this as well. Presumably a late production run with some minor simplifications. Not important, but just worth a mention.

ATB
Well spotted that man! Yes; I have three older L42 chests with the "small" finger joints at the corner, whilst the "new" one has substantially bigger 1/2" finger joints. The torn paper sticker ha the abbreviation "... wkshps ..." on it, so it has been to/from a unit of some kind.