1943 No4Mk1 BSA Shirley receiver - no serial number? Were they that much in a hurry?

[Peter Laidler]

BAR is right. I have seen no end of No8 rifles going through as CR-XXX and Stens as M-78. You know the sort of thing. While I have seen plenty of weapons with defaced, ill defined or just bead blasted out illegible numbers I don't ever recall seeing one with no serial number.

We had a well defined system for numbering or re-numbering weapons with lost, defaced of illegible numbers. These were prefixed ZZ or SA-year-A-xxxx

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