Canadian Sniper Observer Tripod

[Lee Enfield]

Perhaps his father spent some time in Canada? The mismatches between cases and scopes presumably occurred over time in service. We now have five or six scopes showing up in the UK in contrast to the two sent for appraisal in 1945. But over time rifle teams travelling back and forth etc. could account for that. The kit was sure to appeal to marksmen for range use, and might even have been issued to Canadian service rifle teams? Presumably they were surplussed off sometime around the introduction of the FN C1A1.

I have come to believe that the cases were themselves serial numbered which had nothing to do with the contained scopes.

This is based on observing a distinct lack of matched units, and the fact that REL No8 tins are individually serial numbered.

[Surpmil]

My assumption is that considering the rather meticulous standards at SAL & REL and the very fact that they serial numbered the cases at all, and the fact that as the scopes and cases were made in the same factory over the same time period, they would have been originally assembled in matched pairs as they were finished. The only other scenario would be that all 500 of both were made and then randomly mated to each other before shipment. Logically they would have been sent to the Canadian Army stores system with the scopes inserted into their cases in order to protect them in shipment and the logical thing would have been to pack them as they were finished and so sequential assembly with matching numbers would have been hard to avoid I suggest.

[FlightRN]

Good Day,
I was looking through my saved pictures and found pictures of REL Tripod no4. I'm not sure where I found the pictures



https://imgur.com/a/nnbJL3k
https://imgur.com/a/kXrpylD

[FlightRN]