Early 32 Scope?

[Lee Enfield]

Rob, look again at the timeline:

8 July '44, they enquired on 4,000 "instruments" to be delivered by April '45.

August '44 they are disappointed to learn that April '45 is not realistic.

I suspect they wanted scopes to replace in service/"wasted" MkI scopes and have some available for "new production" rifles.

By August 1944, Mk3 production was in place, and probably ended the need for extra scopes.

And ETO was going better than expected - campaign planners were working on the Pacific campaign.