Help with an A suffix Rifle

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Just keeping this thread fresh, with the question 'does anyone have one of the 50's F/FTR's Fazakerley rifle that has kept its A suffix.

A bog standard Fazakerley FTR'd Mk1 or a 1/2 with an A prefix anyone............?

I have to say that I've never noticed one but that doesn't mean anything. But it would add much credence to the EMER note and earlier SAI's

I've seen a few. Here is one I have currently - a '53 Faz FTR of a '43 Faz rifle. As far as I can see (the parkerisation is obviously a recent addition!), the original number has an "A" suffix, which has been carried through during the FTR: