Barrels first. Couldn't someone who simply wants a Daimler the 'looks right' simply machine the locating lug off an Inglis and be done with it?

My theory for the 'shortage' of Daimler Mk2's is that at the end of the war, it was Canadaicon who virtually serviced the rest of the world with Brens. You canm still see on some of the old chests (even UK Mil chests occasionally) the words 'supplied by the Canadian Government to the Netherlands/Belgiumicon/ etc etc Government under the mutual aid plan' It's these guns that seemed to get scattered around and are now surfacing. While the Britishicon made stocks remained prety well within the British military.

As I said, while we had old service .303" guns prior to the L4's, most of them (but not all by any means) were Daimler Mk2's. The DP's were generally obsolete Mk1's. That's only my opinion but while there might be fewer Daimlers, I wouldn't call them 'rare' by any stretch of the imagination