Royal Hong Kong Police revolver

[Peter Laidler]

We used to get loads of pistols from the Commonwealth Police Forces around the Pacific rim through our huge Base Workshop in Singapore. Singapore, Fiji, HK, Malaya etc etc. I don't remember any of them having anything other than the standard big ring loop that went with the large diameter khaki or white landyards that we used. Not many from HK though in the great scheme of things

The NZ Armourers such as Graham Kerr and others used to get the S&W's because they were trained on and used to them while the rest of us were Enfield/Webley and Browning blokes. The S&W's were very what we called 'parts concious'. That means you made sure that the parts went back into the same pistol. Parts for the S&W's were supplied by NZ too as part of their contribution to the Crown Agents programme that they were all refurbished under

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[TyndallTB]

Speaking of the Lanyard Ring, my recent purchase at the Lakeland, FL show is it has a S&W Lanyard Ring identical to the typical S&W 1917/Victory Ring. I expect this is the only factory ring offered. The Only Difference is it appears someone elongated it, similar to pressing it in a vice so that it's more circular. What is weird, is I saw another one at the same show, with the same ring. I'm into Victories, so it caught my eye,,,and my curiosity, as to why someone would deform a factory ring, and then I found the same ring on the RHKP that I eventually bought. There isn't any vice marks or marring on the ring. I was reading on the S&W forum that the RHKP lanyards were thick chord type lanyards, so they needed the big round ring. I was guessing it was a S&W factory install. Since mine is a early RHKP butt number, maybe the early ones had factory rings?, because they all seemed to be drilled in the same spot at the heel of the grip. I'd be interested to see a 1980 vintage with a Jinks letter, to see if the first ones came with rings. I've seen a letter of an 87 vintage and it doesn't show a ring.