No. 4T questions

[Peter Laidler]

Listen carefully Ridolpho........... My words have sometimes been taken as undiplomatic but in the same breath, truthful and to the point. I have seen one or two No4T's in my service since 1963. You can convince yourself that it might be one of them and it's an original that's been worked on. But in my honest opinion, it's not. It's been made up......... Yes, I know that they were ALL made up, but that one is well.... You get my drift. Anyone can sweat the fake pads on and those pads just scream fake. I mean, just look at the ...... I won't go on and on. And I would very much doubt that a perfectly collimated telescope on a correct bracket would collimate with the pads you have there. That is always my acid test. You can call me an old cynic and all that but............. I wouldn't mind betting too that some other forumers, less foirthright than me are also thinking what I'm saying

Are you seriously telling the blokes on the forum that someone (not you, I appreciate that.....) has stated that the No4T bodies were heated to cherry red and oil dipped? What about the heat treatment of the steel?

Anyway, fair enough if you got it at a good price and a No32 to boot, but a No4T it definately ain't. How can I tell? Well it's like being abroad and you get back to your room and there's a few letters on your bed where the post Corporal has left the mail. You pick the pile up and spot one letter that's from your mum. You just KNOW it's from your mum because you just know everything about the way she writes, even if the envelopes she uses this time is wrong or the post mark is different. That's how I can tell a Fazakerley Sterling SMG, an Inglis Bren, a BSA L1A1 and a fake No4T. You can just tell.......................... You might not like the news but there it is