No 5 Mark 1 Serial Numbers

[Beerhunter]

Really? So the short ends go on the inside, with the hooks facing outwards? Thanks! I'll have to change that. Don't want the other kids laughing at me!

And mine doesn't say "ROF(F)", just "F", as you can see. What's the difference?

Yes.

Later Fazackerly production only has the F. No idea why.

[krinko]

Here's an end-of-the-line BSA from 1947.
Bindi2----the SAIS serial number information for the No5 and the No4 is not up to speed. Skenny needs an editor, badly.
-----krinko

[Bindi2]

Here's an end-of-the-line BSA from 1947.
Bindi2----the SAIS serial number information for the No5 and the No4 is not up to speed. Skenny needs an editor, badly.
-----krinko

I have no problem with the BSA Nos (close). Faz seems a little less clear. Not used in sequence, I& J not used finished in the S & AA range war time orders, with at least another 110K made later AA onwards. Who for the MoD or someone else. How did the Aussies get to use them in Malaya. The Brits left most of their gear behind when they left though the No5s that have come out of Malaya dont look as good as many others in the AA+ bracket or the late BSA ones. I have a BG with a No4 butt that was new when i bought it

[krinko]

Bindi,
I've owned two "AC" prefixed Fazakerley No5s---both dated 10/47 and I believe Vulch used to have a 12/47---though I'm not sure that one was still "AC".
-----krinko

[Peter Laidler]

We had vast pooled Ordnance stockpiles in Malaya and Australia used UK rifles, Brens and some vehicles while the poms used Australian Owens (for a strategic reason though) and International trucks and a lot of ammunition. All the pom kit was left behind when they left except for, once again, some 'materials of strategic or of warlike importance' kit. Why this kit included Land Rover light ambulances, clapped out Bedford RL chassis type fire engines and busses heaven only knows. Australia/NZ and S Africa took the Centurion tanks whereupon SA immediately sold their share to Israel! The R.Naval dockyard were the only place that could load and unload the 60 ton tanks

Where were we..... ah yes....., that's why Australia used and inherited a monster load of pom kit in the early 70's