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Originally Posted by
Seaforth72
The maker of your 1944 dated No. 15 Mk. I transit chest is CAMBRIDGE I believe. I have at least one No. 15 Mk. I chest with that marking.
Glad you are enjoying the rifle and that you were able to follow the lead and purchase the transit chest.
Colin
Could that possibly be "Papworth Industries - Cambridge" ?
Mine are not the best, but they are not too bad. I can think of lots of Enfields I'd rather have but instead of constantly striving for more, sometimes it's good to be satisfied with what one has...
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07-08-2025 02:38 PM
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Perhaps common knowledge in the UK
, but living across the pond I had to look up Papworth and am impressed it still exists as Royal Papworth Hospital.
Yes, Colin, worked out great and thanks again for all your help! I wouldn't have known about this chest without your lead.
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Originally Posted by
Lance
I have found 5 different
UK (3 of them currently unknown) and 3
Canadian manufacturer stamps on No. 15 chests; yours is from Papworth Industries. Illustrations forthcoming if I can find the time to finish these damn books!
What do you have on the three unknowns Lance?
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Just their stamps
A. OF E.H LTD
B & I.N.LTD
V.C.B. & S. LTD
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Does Albion Arms of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, still exist? Asking because my No. 15 chest with the unusual coat of arms still has the shipping label from Interarms (Alexandria, VA) to them in Peterborough.
When I was a student at the war college and then assigned to the Pentagon in 1988-9 Interarms was either still in business or in the process of closing down. Very noticeable because they had a heavy weapons dump in a fairly small fenced plot in downtown Alexandria. Drove by it a few times, but was far too busy at work (and not into milsurps at the time) to check them out.
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