No.4 Grenade Projector Case

[Alan de Enfield]

Peter, do you recall when RFI stopped producing EY rifles? From memory, the one I have was made in 1964.

Do you mean EY or GF rifles ?

By no means were all EY rifles converted to GF rifles and not all GF rifles were ex EY rifles, but, it is fair to say that generally GF rifles were conversions of EY rifles to avoid 'wasting' a pefectly good '1st line rifle'.

Peter did post (in 2008) the following regarding GF rifles :

Thanks to former Armourer ‘Robbie’ Robertson who was able to shed light on this. Robbie also commented that ‘………….. we did about 250 of the rifles in 1967 or so but I don’t ever remember seeing any of the actual cups since Korea in the early 50’s. I don’t think we had any!’

[pedro243]

I would imagine that '64 is about right. That said, is the rifle a '64 or is it the actual cup?

I have just had a look and the rifle is dated '63.

I do have a RFI cup and the only number i have found on it is "155"

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Do you mean EY or GF rifles ?

By no means were all EY rifles converted to GF rifles and not all GF rifles were ex EY rifles, but, it is fair to say that generally GF rifles were conversions of EY rifles to avoid 'wasting' a pefectly good '1st line rifle'.

Peter did post (in 2008) the following regarding GF rifles :

Thanks to former Armourer ‘Robbie’ Robertson who was able to shed light on this. Robbie also commented that ‘………….. we did about 250 of the rifles in 1967 or so but I don’t ever remember seeing any of the actual cups since Korea in the early 50’s. I don’t think we had any!’

Is it a grenade rifle, and if EY rifles were meant to have an EY stamped on them, this one does not have any stamps. The only stamps on it are the RFI 1963 No1Mmk3* and the serial number. The butt has a "S^A" and a circular stamp with some numbers in it.

[Peter Laidler]

I don''t remember GF spec rifles - whatever they were........ We had those marked EY in yellow on a dark green band around the heel of the butt. We also had sub-standard or second standard No1 rifles that were generally in the school Cadet Forces. These sub standard riifles had a silver band around the butt and were perfect, fireable etc etc but had slight barrel or tolerance specs that made them safe to fite but don't ecpect to win any prizes - as said to me as a youngster.

We also had DP No1 rifles that were later designated as DRILL RIFLE L59 A2. I saw a couple of them and kept one but the conversion to L59 DP spec caused no end of trouble due to thee being so many variables, they were impossible to hold in the machining jigs! The DP rifles were always categorised as BR-PC or BR-UF until they were certified as ZUF. Beyond repair, provisionally condemned, Beyond repair unfit to fire and then Z - base workshop or factory repair, Unfit to fire