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Curious paint markings on stock
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02-05-2011 09:27 PM
# ADS
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Probably just rack numbers - there are thousands of variations, given the numbers of countries and units that had the rifles.
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Yep, just the rack numbers. But I'd like to see the oither parts of the SOU that you can JUST see under the small of the butt. That's a bit of history that I might be able to unravel for you................ Armourers knew all of these markings and yours.......................................
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Hi,
Thanks for looking at this :-)
Here is the SOU number
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Yours was given a major Base Workshop overhaul - pretty well a FTR but without the in-depth body jig examination at 18 Base Workshops at Bovington Camp in Dorset in March 1956. CP was the examiner.
SOU 2 was their mark that indicated Southern Command. I suspect that as the mark is still clear, it was a 'programme' where, say, 500 used rifles are taken from Ordnance or withdrawn from a unit being sent abroad and returned to war reserve stockpiles. There, they'll be put into what we called 'deep pres' or deep preservation and stored for decades. But that's just a guess.
Anyway, there's a bit of its history......................
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Great to know, thanks again :-)
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Yours was given a major Base Workshop overhaul - pretty well a FTR but without the in-depth body jig examination at 18 Base Workshops at Bovington Camp in Dorset in March 1956. CP was the examiner.
SOU 2 was their mark that indicated Southern Command.
Would you happen to know who/where SOU 3 was? (It's actually stamped SOU/3 and 1/59).
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er............. what is stamped SOU/3 1/59
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Well it's actually on the overhaul plate of a vehicle, but the general format of SOUx seems likely to apply to both. I'm trying to identify where this vehicle had a Base repair in 1959.
I have evidence that it was issued to a unit located in Southern Command (as was).
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It is indeed. SOU3 was the vehicle annex/outstation of 18 Command Workshops at Plymouth. I think it was at MILPOOL. They Base Workshopped the last of the Austin Ice Cold In Alex type ambulances down there in 1967
What vehicle type is it? The reason I asked was because the SOU 2 was the main workshop and 3 didn't do small arms
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