what does the "z" Mean

[muffett.2008]

What you haven't told us is what year the rifle is.
The 'H' stamp was applied to both the original H pattern and also to rifles builtup later to that standard.
The original run in 1933 was on new actions, subsequent rifles were a mix of selected dates depending on accuracy.

[CINDERS]

P L probably telling rather tall stories sort of......

[Homer]

What you haven't told us is what year the rifle is.
The 'H' stamp was applied to both the original H pattern and also to rifles builtup later to that standard.
The original run in 1933 was on new actions, subsequent rifles were a mix of selected dates depending on accuracy.

Hi Muffer,

Mate are you able to elaborate on this a little more. A couple of points you made there I was not aware of. What rifles were built up later to that standard? Didn't the H pattern conversions run from 1933 to 1939 ( I don't know where I got that) and weren't they all H pattern conversions. And the original run in 1933 of new actions, do you mean 30's dated actions. I've only ever seen early Lithgow actions dating pre 1917 and earlier English. You've got my juices flowing with this.

I was hoping to pop in and see you at Belmont if you have a moment to spare during the week. Ive lost your number.

[muffett.2008]

No worries Andrew, there are a few references in the archives on the H pattern, to clarify, it would have been 1930 actions, although records show that undated actions were stored(and all other parts) in sufficient quantities to assemble bookoo amounts of firearms, parts still being manufactured during those non rifle assembly years.
There were 3000? assembled initially, subsequent upgrades were available to rifle clubs (remember this pattern was specifically for the ARC) and the conversion program was on early dated (1915-18) rifles, both new rifles and barrels were available from 1933Attachment 55485

Later HT conversions were usually from these early dated firearms alsoAttachment 55486 like my 1916 HT, this is all off the top of my head, being 700k from my paperwork.

[Peter Laidler]

Er....., chaps....... He's not interested in the H marking. It's the Z that he's asking about unless I've missed something - again!

[CINDERS]

Yeah I got a bit confused how it went from Z to H

[Homer]

We digressed sorry.

[muffett.2008]

Sorry, the year date will tell us if the butt is pre WWII Lithgow or later Slazenger furniture.

[Iron Horse]

Ill have to get back to you on the date but I'll throw this at you, we think the barrel on this HT is stainless

[Son]

Ill have to get back to you on the date but I'll throw this at you, we think the barrel on this HT is stainless

Now that would be an interesting development!
Can you post some pics of the markings on the barrel and tell us what makes you think it's stainless?