Bsa p14

[Surpmil]

A great many of those early ERA rifles were condemned as EY only. Saw a video of one being lovingly refinished recently. Something to do with the heat treating of the actions perhaps? There was a story posted online years ago about how the piece-work paid workers found they could do the forging in two heats instead of three if they heated the forgings to a white heat. Supposedly when some pond was drained at the factory, hundreds of ruined receivers were found at the bottom. We know from IDS that the British Inspectorate wanted to reject a lot more than they did, but were told to accept it anyway for business and political reasons. Even the AEF said "send no more Winchesters" to France in 1918 due to non-interchangeable parts.

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