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Thanks to all! Cinders got it - and is in agreement with Adrian on the Victorian Rifleman Forum.
BTW, in my CCF they didn't let us get our paws on bayonets either. Which is why I was sceptical about the school solution. And when we made our annual "outing" the bolts were transported separately from the rifles. Which, on one occasion, left us in the Scottish Highlands without functioning rifles for a day or two!
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08-28-2021 10:39 AM
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So does the bayonet that is being auctioned have any connection to Cambridge University or mot, please?
Does the "901" marking imply that there are at least 901 bayonets in the armoury or does it mean something else please?
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The 901 I would surmise is a rack No. the Q store may have had its own way which was handy and known to them if it is sequential for the rifles then that is a hell of a big armoury at that university they may have numbered everything with say the first No.1 item being a mortar tube, 2nd item its sights and so on.
Then when they got to the bayonets it may have been in the 800's who knows but I'm putting my money on it being a rack No. and quite possibly it may have a corresponding rifle but given bayonets were not given to a particular rifle then that No. could be vastly different to the rifles rack No.
We will never know which ever way the cookie crumbles main thing is we have answered the question asked as best we can with what available information we have at hand.
When we bivied we were issued the bolts with our rifle and transported out to the scrub with them in situ we were allowed blanks for a war games with assaulting forces and entrenched forces having a go at each other.
We did put small amounts of gravel down the barrel and made the 303's mini shotguns as they were not our range rifles which were were issued for the range, they never came out even for parade, but we soon stopped that lark as it was to dangerous when getting in close to each other.
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Ok thanks for that, Cinders, about the numbering.
So we can't tell which University owned the bayonet then?
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Not really unless there is something stamped elsewhere on an top edge above the scales or the flip side to what's been supplied we can only assume it is from an O.T.C / U.C as supplied images dictate.
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