Ah, yes but in Germanyicon, there were a lot of shared Ordnance and workshop facilities, such as the big workshops at Werl and the huge Base Workshops at Wetter. Canadianicon Centurions went through there too. Ammo was also pooled to so you'd see Canadian ammo in use - was it IVI manufacture?

Australiaicon offered the cheapest prices for allegiant nations to buy L1A1's so they got the business and the profit and so I'm lead to believe, the largest sales too.

Off the subject slightly now......... but David Howroyd from Sterling told me that as a result of Australia taking a huge slice of the what they called 'off-sales' of L1A1 rifles, Enfield wouldn't allow Australia to make/convert Brens into L4 guns as they'd undercut Enfield at that too! Whether that's absolutely correct is a bit of a ? but certainly Aust. wasn't permitted to use the Enfield Bren to L4 patents. On the other hand, when Lithgow wanted to use the Sterling magazines in the little F1 gun, Sterling just said '........ be our guest just so long as they are wholly and strictly for your own use and there are absolutely no sales abroad' The Aust Govt abided to it to the letter
Information
Warning: This is a relatively older thread
This discussion is older than 360 days. Some information contained in it may no longer be current.