Surpmil: This kind of unverifiable, mystery reference is the sort of thing that makes internet "research" dangerous. Surely if BritishGovt. documents exist that document serious safety issues with original Pattern 14 production someone else would have stumbled onto them by now and been able to share them with us all. Maybe this thread should be an invitation for anyone with well documented cases of failure of P14/ M1917 rifles (in their original, un-bubbafied form) to bring them forward.
Ridolpho