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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    Roy, thread 107 above. I'm pretty-well sure/certain that AI actually assembled the rifles that we had. It took some considerable time to satisfy the x,xxx order so it wasn't a rush job that had to be outsourced
    Pete, Dave Walls says himself that the manufacture was outsourced to an MOD chosen engineering firm in Dartford and that he spent most of his time there overseeing the manufacture.

    I don't think his shed was up to it at the time, and their first premises probably didn't come along for some time

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