Oil Bottles

[mrclark303]

Interesting project Kev, the thought of sectioning oil bottles (along with a rough SUIT and bayonet) had crossed my mind.

So if you need a check up from the neck up for L1 OCD, I will likely be taken away too mate...

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[nzl1a1collector]

Interesting project Kev, the thought of sectioning oil bottles (along with a rough SUIT and bayonet) had crossed my mind.

So if you need a check up from the neck up for L1 OCD, I will likely be taken away too mate...

I've thought about doing a SUIT sight, basing it on the ones done for SKN rifles, I have a mate that could do it but it would have to be when he's not busy with work... I could be waiting for a while.

Recently I've managed to find a number of unique new items, that I will titillate you

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I believe that I have one or two Canadian versions of the bakelite oil bottle and I may have more than one style of Canadian version. I will have to dig them out at some point but, from memory, one of them only has the tiniest of Canadian acceptance markings on the base to identify it as being Canadian issue and could easily be missed.

All the bottle I've looked at have no Canadian markings, ........ I've carefully examined them. We have large quantities of Bakelite oil bottles and I believe this is because we were reequipped after WW2 with No. 4 Mk. 1* rifles of Long Branch and Savage production, which came with oil bottles and spares, these would of kept NZ supplied until the SLR was withdrawn in 1988. The Australian bottles would of come with the L1A1 SLR rifles shipped between 1959 - 1967.

I would be interested to see 'known' Canadian examples so I can confirm the designs that belong to them.

[browningautorifle]

Canadian examples

Thing is, we were issued lots of different oil bottles, I expect many came through the supply system in CFE and returned with us during repat...I think if I check my leftovers, there'll be a bit of everything and I don't recall CA markings.