SP L2A1 "look a like"

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No markings on mine whatsoever. Re the butts, I quite take your point from a service perspective, but today its a collectors perspective, sort of like you wouldn't fit a Late Rover steering wheel, or a 1998 A+ series engine in a 1967 Mini Cooper S.

Sad perhaps ( anoraks, yes, why not), but we collectors try to rebuild Rifles to represent a particular time frame of a types service history.

Tracking down and acquiring the "right" parts for the restoration is just part of the fun of owning any classic really...

I look at it as "get what works, till you can find what's 'right' ".

If it's any consolation, C2/L2 parts are no less difficult to find here in the States. Most (all?) of the unique parts were made by Long Branch in Canada, and they shut down for good in 1976...the Canadian MGs all went in the shredder (though spare parts came to the US), and only well-used Kiwi/Malayan L2s made it here as parts kits. If the Aussies made any of the LMG-specific parts themselves, I've never heard of it. I bought my L2 for a bit over $3000...somebody was recently advertising the unique parts on GB for nearly as much. Guess I'll never get a proper rear-sight top cover for mine....