Parker Hale M85 Serial Number Checks & Provenance on Manufacture (Records)

[mforow]

hy Gil
i found these rifles in the catalogue of an auction. the one numbered C09547 is defined as "parker-hale 7.62mm bolt-magazine metropolitan police sniper type' rifle" chambered 7,62 mm; the one numbered CGP0005 is deifned as “a sniper version of a parker-hale cadet general purpose trials rifle”, no information about the caliber of the second one.
you mean that the last one is a special parker hale?

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[Gil Boyd]

Yes, in terms that it was fitted with an M85 stock and is in .223 all the Cadets were prefixed CGP.
With reference to the first one you say was advertised as 7.62, very unusual to see that S/N attributed to a rifle the Met Police had unless it was an early 1200.

[rgg_7]

mforow - can you post any pix's of the 2 rifles. Maybe we can tell you more.