1942 Longbranch question

[Seaspriter]

Thanks Brian, and I stand corrected on the wood selection, based on your handling so many Long Branch rifles. We all know how the whole history of Enfields is filled with mysteries, anomalies, and contradictions. In 1943, according to an article (below) in the Toronto newspaper, the factory ran out of the stocks of walnut. (Walnut only grows in a very narrow band of land just north of Lake Ontario (IIRC). So, if walnut reappeared in LB production in 1944-5, where did it come from? I'll speculate that it came from the U.S. where there were (and still are) ample walnut forests. Could it be that Savage was supplying walnut blanks or finished stocks to Canada -- we know they sent a lot of finished walnut to Great Britain for use for repairs.

Read the next to the last paragraph in the last column.
http://www.pbase.com/mrclark/image/93385408

I'm not trying to be argumentative, just trying to unscramble another set of contradictory pieces of evidence -- like Sherlock Holmes.

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