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OK, from 1 to 10 what do we consider to be the rarest LE,s (manufacturers, dates, models) etc, dont all shout at once!!!
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11-04-2011 09:12 PM
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For me, it is the one that got away due to a legal battle almost one year ago -- .22 No.5 Trials Rifle (105 made).
This would be No. 1 on my list.
Last edited by tlvaughn; 11-04-2011 at 09:34 PM.
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My rarest is the Sparkbrook converted by Ankara of Turkey
to 7.92x57. The "Enfamauser". It's withdrawn... nothing of the Enfield left....
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From an Australian perspective, the XP series ("Shortened and Lightened, No6 variants) would be right up there.
Then there is the interesting SMLE I fondled about 25 years ago. It had been brought to Australia from a Canadian collection. It looked like any other SMLE except the hole down the barrel looked a bit odd. Odd as in small. The other wild piece of kit in the bunch was one of the prototypes of the Ainley sniper rifle.
A quick and dirty measuring job on this SMLE barrel showed it as about .270"ish.
I just hapened to have some .276 Pedersen cartridges in my collection, so I went home and grabbed them.
They fitted the chamber neatly and the bolt closed correctly. Sorry, like most folk, I have never got round to getting a set of headspace gauges in .276 Pedersen.
I'd guess that what I had in my hands that day was used in cartridge trials during the production of the Vickers-Pedersen rifles in the early 1930s. It had an unmodified .303 magazine, so I am guessing that it was not (at that stage) part of an experiment to develop a second-line rifle if the Pedersen was adopted.
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I didn't really want the thread to turn into "whats your holy grail", thats been done. Just what would be considered to be the rarest 10 types
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In my opinion the rarest are the
De Lisle Parachute Carbine (2)
No. 1 Mk. VI Type A (6)
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Haha, thats easy, the Charleton, Electrolux model first, then the NZ
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Not quite as rare as this says... I know the rough locations of seven, plus one reproduced from original drawings...
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Attachment 27994Attachment 27994Very rare indeed! My Charnwood .308 No. 5 Mk 2 ...
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No.1 MkIII manufactured and assembled by Pratt & Whitney to prove out the tooling sold to Lithgow. I think two are in Australia and possibly 7 were sold to Val Forget from the P&W factory Collection.
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No.1 MkIII manufactured and assembled by Pratt & Whitney to prove out the tooling sold to Lithgow. I think two are in
Australia and possibly 7 were sold to Val Forget from the P&W factory Collection.
There are two in the Lithgow SAF Museum. One complete and one missing most bits. I know of one other in Australia, but it may have been moved along by now, I'm afraid.
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