Re thread 66 and 62 Skippy, that cover ans welded top piece attachment were used on a few different variants such as the IIW cover, the No78 sight cover and the SUSAT rail type cover yes? or no?

Gil, the sight on your L1A1rifle as shown during the NI period wasn't the SUSAT. It is the SUIT that stood for Shooter Usually In Trouble.

There has been a fair bit written about the SUIT in this forum section. Not a patch on the later incarnation, the SUSAT as fitted to the little L85.

I have an adaptor rail on my SA80/L98 that takes a S&B 6x 42 greenie with a recalibrated range drum. I also got one of the trials adaptor plates that converts the SA80 dovetail/SUSAT rails to picatinny format. That allows me to use a US M-16 Trijicon or ANY picatinny railed sight.