4T owners and anybody of a nervous disposition, look away now!

[No4Mk1(T)]

My big question would be do you think they actually bought complete No4(T)’s and broke them down for their actions or did they manage to get a job lot of previously used receivers from rifles that had been broken down for spare parts and later sold off by the MOD?

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[Strangely Brown]

My big question would be do you think they actually bought complete No4(T)’s and broke them down for their actions or did they manage to get a job lot of previously used receivers from rifles that had been broken down for spare parts and later sold off by the MOD?

I don't believe for a moment that Geoff Hart or Bert Whittaker would have bought a No4 T complete with a full CES, you have to remember that at this time there was no interest in Enfields, or certainly not to the extent we see today.
It is only through the publication of books and articles like Peter's "An Armourer's Perspective" and Ian Skennerton's book "The Lee Enfield" that the interest has grown, throw into that the loss of pistol shooting (in the UK) and it is then very apparent that the last ten years has seen this meteoric rise in all things Enfield.
Bert Whittaker worked at RSAF Enfield Lock, so I think it is safe to say that much of his stock probably came from there.