Parker Hale M85 Serial Number Checks & Provenance on Manufacture (Records)

[Gil Boyd]

Ironically and further to what I said above I found these recorded on pages 1405 to 1409 on company records:

Headed: M82's FROM CANADA no mention of refurbishment, and nowhere near the complete list of rifles I have leaving the factory with the G last letter on conversion to C3A1 rifles.

1200TX S/N P85612
1200TX S/N R38468
1200TX S/N 38700
1200TX S/N P94040
1200TX S/N R03204

Strange, but that was Parker Hale all over. No rational answer to many queries raised and numbering and lettering had no rhyme nor reason or consistancy I'm afraid, very frustrating!!!

Ironically T. Hallam of Charnwood Ordnance also bought M82 S/N R22605 on the same day as the above R22814 on the 5th November 1996