#1mk111 cutaway canadian marked

[jona]

The full length No1 skeletonised rifles are quite scarce in Australia. I wonder if many were destroyed when they were no longer required.

Navy Arms imported a number of cut-aways from Australia around the same time Jovino brought in their horde. They had to replace the barrels so ATF would not treat them as pistols(too short). I managed to get two of them.

[Homer]

Navy Arms imported a number of cut-aways from Australia around the same time Jovino brought in their horde. They had to replace the barrels so ATF would not treat them as pistols(too short). I managed to get two of them.

Full length cutaways?

[browningautorifle]

Those would be the ones that had the 12" bbl...no front wood.

[Peter Laidler]

Out of interest BAR, were the RCEME Armourers ex-boy apprentices (15 to 18 year olds) or did they just do their training as adults as per most of the other trades. I wouldn't imagine that anyone could afford to run these 3 year non-productive apprenticeship schemes any more. PLUS another 18 week course sometime in the following 2 years to show we were up to speed before we were really 'qualified'. What a 5 year palava! The Indian Army do a scheme according to our IALO at Warminster, where they bring selected, bright, craft-oriented school leavers into the Army as boys to continue their education and trade training for the specialist Corps like REME/Signals-electronics/Engineers

[browningautorifle]

the RCEME Armourers

We actually have one here I think...REME Ralph I think his name is. I THINK he was a Canadian armorer.

At any rate, we had an enlistment plan and when I started, it was 17 to 25 and you went to the trade you'd been selected for. There was no boy plan such as the UK had. This is why I believe the cutaways for the CF were made at C.A.L. and not by armorers such as you'd described doing yourself...

[Peter Laidler]

I should have thought of RCEME Ralph! Arte et Marte!