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The oil bottle is good to store a spare extractor, spring and broken shell extractor.


The tin was used with the No.5 but I've never heard of it being issued with the Rifle No.4. It may have been but I think the tin is more a post WW2 thing and used for all arms including the semi-auto rifle.

The oil bottle? The broken shell extractor won't fit in the oil bottle and if you store spare parts in it, where will you keep your oil? Oil is guaranteed to be needed and the average soldier was not encouraged to replace broken extractors and springs. Not that they couldn't, it was just that they were going to need oil more than spare parts. Unit armorers had the spare parts.