No4 Magazine Markings.

[22SqnRAE]

IanS,

Faz made rifles up to PF, so PA is toward the latter part of the 360,000 post WWII rifles they made at that factory.

Best guess, and that's all it is, would be a Korean vintage rifle, 51-53, say?

M/56 on the platform means the wartime production code given to the parts maker. In this case (C.W. ?) Cheney & Son Ltd, Willenhall. Cheneys were a locksmith company established in the 1920s. The platform and attached spring would have been new old stock from, most likely, wartime (or extending just a few years after )production runs.

The U4 would have been the inspector's mark in the factory that made the mag case.

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[IanS]

22SqnRAE

Many thanks for the information, it's nice to know some of the history surrounding the kit we become the custodians of. Interesting that the rifle was likely in the Korean war.
The magazine is in very good condition, I popped the spring out and it looks new inside the mag and the spring looks like it was changed in the refurb as you mentioned. Doesn't look to have had much wear since.
Thanks again Ian