Assistance request on Savage/Stevens No.4 Mk 1*, please

[Alan de Enfield]

Remember the huge combined workshops Peter Laidler described to us? He said that all overseas rifles went into these and then rifles would be reissued on a basis of one to one, regardless of where they started. That was how mixed manufacturers came to be in various possessions.

Wasn't that a 2008 post on Jouster, where PL was talking about the Crown Agents contracts and was specifically talking about the No5 ?


I think I mentioned earlier that when we were doing the big Crown Agents FTR programme, it was priced (so I was told) that if 70 came in, 70 went out and if some were ZF’d (scrap) then they’d be replaced from our ANZUK (I think this was Aust, NZ and UK stockholdings) mobilization stores from the huge …., and I mean HUGE Ordnance stockpiles close by at Johore Bahru. So we would cannibalise No5’s and if necessary, send them out with No4 bodies.

[browningautorifle]

Wasn't that a 2008 post on Jouster, where PL was talking about the Crown Agents contracts and was specifically talking about the No5 ?

It had to be here, I was never on Jouster. We were talking about the #4 rifles at that point and FNs... Anyway, he'll be along to summarize I hope.

[Mk VII]

I think it's just the usual 'B' that's double-stamped.

[Roger Payne]

Yes, the letter punch probably 'bounced'.