I was a bit perplexed by 32nd's judgement too! Of all the thousands and thousands of them that I've handled and spoken to users about in the past, I've never heard a bad word and especially about the handle/grip being too short. Any notion of it being a fighting knife as such was purely secondary. It was a bayonet for stabbing, hacking, slashing, gouging at faces, eyes and bodies........ and anything else more or less macabre that you could possibly do. It was well thought out too in my opinion because the tough blade remained so because it was not contaminated by welding. The cross piece was held in place with rivets and the pommell was rivetted on too.

I think that the designers (I think it was a Wilkinson design on contract....) obviously had an eye on the future too because their little £3 or so bayonet (it was approx £10 as an assembly - inc the scabbard in the 1969 VAOS list if my memory serves me correctly) surely must have taken the prize as an inflation busting investment
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