No4 Mk2 Irish Contract

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I have another question regarding same rifle.

SN falls right under Stratton's starting number for Irish Contract.

I was dead sure about IC as contract source but now, I am puzzled
There's a block of 5000 rifles with missing destination right between Sudan and Irish Contract.

Anybody can help please.

tks,

BB

None of the "contracts" appear to have gone further than a UK depot, followed a few years later by sale into the surplus market. The contracts list merely appears to have been an early sales projection by the Ministry of Supply (as was), and "gaps" or other discrepancies may have no significance at all. The only numbers with some sort of history appear to be the PF 4xx,xxx series, which appear to have been created by the sale of un-numbered action bodies to the UK gun trade.