Lee Enfield vs P14

[vintage hunter]

they didn't use common parts as a P14 made by Winchester couldn't use Remington parts etc.

Where did you get that idea from?

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[Eaglelord17]

Where did you get that idea from?

Each factory produced parts from their own designs, leading to interchangeability issues, until they all adopted the P14* standard. There are actually 4 main manufactured models of P14s, P14W, P14R, P14E, and P14*. The letter following the designation was the factory that manufactured it (i.e. W was Winchester, R was Remington, and E was Eddystone).

This is only referring to the manufactured models, not those updated to things like Weedon standard.

[vintage hunter]

Each factory produced parts from their own designs, leading to interchangeability issues, until they all adopted the P14* standard. There are actually 4 main manufactured models of P14s, P14W, P14R, P14E, and P14*. The letter following the designation was the factory that manufactured it (i.e. W was Winchester, R was Remington, and E was Eddystone).

It may have a ring of truth to it but information found at Wikipedia is not to be relied on as being 100% accurate. If you look they only list 2 references, I don't have Hatchers Notebook but I do have Hesketh-Pritchard's and page 239 doesn't even mention a P14.

[Promo]

Nearly all is exchangeable, AFAIK only very early Winchester P.14 rifles had non-interchangeable parts with other manufacturers (what was also the reason for officially chosing only the Winchester rifle for sniper useage).

I remember when the UK introduced the spike bayonet the question arose, whether this bayonet was capable of penetrating a German winter coat - and that was still in officially peaceful times. So to claim that noone wanted war and everyone was thinking of peace by disarming might not be that correct.