Interesting Long Branch No.4 MK.1*

[Peter Laidler]

It must be something in the water in Canada Steve if you can't understand this. It all adds up...... I try to make it as simple as I can, believe me......... Just take the Land Rover that has had a major pallet landing by parachute. The chassis is bent and buckled but it looks perfect. It goes into the REME workshop and the examiner looks at it on the pit and finds damage to the chassis that cannot be repaired or that makes it beyond any form of economic repair.

Now, my question for you lads! Does the examiner
a) paint ZF/BER - CAST on the chassis in yellow paint and then drive it out to the cast vehicle park or does he;
b) paint CAST in xxxxing great big yellow letters on the drivers windscreen (and a big dob of yellow paint on the cover of the vehicle record book)

On Radio sets, the big yellow marker is on the operating face........

And just in case you ain't not read all of the articles that relate to this subject, DP rifles and machine guns DO have xxxxing great white bands (or yellow in Oz or Red/White/Red in India) together with an equally xxxxing great big DP in black in them. And....., I know that you're not going to believe this, it's painted on the wood too! And there's probably nothing wrong with the wood. There's even a xxxxing great stack of pictures to amply illustrate the point.

Sometimes I didn't understand the Army system of doing things but I just accepted it for what it was and did it. Or is it me that's missing something?

Incidentally, the rifle might NOT have been rejected for the barrel, it could be many other things that perhaps your advisers aren't aware of, such as magazine stop face or sear stop height or...... or.........