1980's Lee-Enfield Carry Case?

[Peter Laidler]

It MIGHT be someones lucky day as it LOOKS from the length like it's from an L42 CES. The original issues were just the bog standard No4 rifle type, lengthened on contract by REMPLOY (I think it was a factory near Andover somewhere.....) who did a decent job or you local Base Workshop equipment repairer, who was more used to repairing Land Rover and Bedford canopies who did a barely passable job.

Later issues were what we called 'new-build' in that '58 pattern heavy duty canvas, just like the photo.

Someones lucky day I think. What do you think TBox?

As a matter of interest Peregrine, I teach physics and always try to throw in small aide memoirs such as simple sayings that make learning easy. Is there more to your phrase about Newton? He's a pet subject of mine, being an Oxford Physicist and all that!

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[peregrinvs]

It MIGHT be someones lucky day as it LOOKS from the length like it's from an L42 CES. The original issues were just the bog standard No4 rifle type, lengthened on contract by REMPLOY (I think it was a factory near Andover somewhere.....) who did a decent job or you local Base Workshop equipment repairer, who was more used to repairing Land Rover and Bedford canopies who did a barely passable job.

Later issues were what we called 'new-build' in that '58 pattern heavy duty canvas, just like the photo.

Someones lucky day I think. What do you think TBox?

As a matter of interest Peregrine, I teach physics and always try to throw in small aide memoirs such as simple sayings that make learning easy. Is there more to your phrase about Newton? He's a pet subject of mine, being an Oxford Physicist and all that!

An L42 eh? Well, well ,well.

The Newton quote is an epitaph written by Alexander Pope. The poet Sir John Squire later added:

"It could not last; the Devil shouting "Ho!
Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo".

Funnily enough, I recently got to go on a tour of the Royal Society in London and in the library was allowed to touch the page of a book on which Newton himself had written.