Jungle Carbine Question

[Alan de Enfield]

My Jungle Carbine serial Number is X1116. Why is the X prefix not shown below? are they a misprint where it shows 2 Y's?

No5 rifles (Jungle Carbines) serial numbers consisted of a sequential 4 digit number starting with 0001 running through to 9999, the numbers were preceded by a letter prefix. When the number sequence reached 9999 the next letter assigned to the factory would be substituted in place of the former. These specific letter prefixes were assigned to ROF Fazakerley and BSA Shirley, the only two manufacturers of the No5 rifle, this ensured that there would be no duplicate serials during the production run of No5’s. The prefixes were assigned as follows:

ROF Fazakerley

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, L, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T ,U, V, W, Y ,Y, Z, AA, AB, AC

BSA Shirley

BB, BD, BE, BF, BG, BH, BJ, BK

Not sure what your information source is but there were certainly X prefix Faz No5's (as seen with your own) I would assume that the 2x Y is a typo.

A few other examples from the database :

X1214 - 8/46
X151X - 8/46
X37XX - ?/46
X4388 - 9/46
X5426 - 9/46
X5904 - ?/46 ( Year = 1946 based on S/N comparison ) *
X8726 - ?/46
X9154 - 10/46