Enfield No. 5 Carbine

[waco16]

Bayonets are issued from a locker in stores with no regard as to anything else. Just if they fit or not.

Yep - I've got a factory fresh, unissued bayonet for my 1947 Fazakerly No5 that doesn't fit - the ring is slightly too small to fit over the flash hider

[tj214]

Me too, but I've always wondered whether it's a fake or repro. I'd think a legit item would fit, but BAR suggests a little thing like that may not have been a high priority for the acquisitions civvies.

[browningautorifle]

the ring is slightly too small to fit

Were it one that had been in stores, it would have been altered to fit. Ask PL... What I was suggesting is makers marks don't count to storemen. Fitment and serviceability does.

[Strangely Brown]

Yep - I've got a factory fresh, unissued bayonet for my 1947 Fazakerly No5 that doesn't fit - the ring is slightly too small to fit over the flash hider

Neil, I wonder if your bayonet would fit a Sterling SMG?

[waco16]

Neil, I wonder if your bayonet would fit a Sterling SMG?

Possibly Mick, but I'm pretty sure its wartime (or very early post war manufacture), carrying the N187 code for Radcliff