No4T factory question

[Gil Boyd]

You need one of these:

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[Roger Payne]

I'd love to see photo's of it rgg_7. I have a very elderly acquaintance in the North of England who has a 1944 Maltby 4T. It is very pretty & he's as pleased as punch with it, but it's as wrong as a nine bob note & I haven't got the heart to tell him. He's also got a 'special lightened experimental' No32 bracket on one of his scopes. It isn't, it's actually an early one of my reproductions that has changed hands a few times & been 'modified' before being wound into him as something it isn't. Again, I didn't tell him; he's well into his eighties & I just couldn't do it to him......

If it is a 1943 rifle I guess it could be right, but it'll be the latest one I've ever heard of.

Did the O rings ever get to you, by the way? I posted them weeks ago, but recently I've had some stuff take ridiculously long to get to North America.

[Lance]

Here are two survivors. Surprisingly there is another Maltby L42 currently for sale, obviously for big $$, but its marking are much better than mine.

[Surpmil]

Here are two survivors. Surprisingly there is another Maltby L42 currently for sale, obviously for big $$, but its marking are much better than mine.

I feel pretty certain your Maltby has a forend from a No4 trials rifle on it. There are certain distinctive profiles there...

Mine was in the 11,800 range and yours looks to be in the 12,000(?). IIRC most of those we've seen here were in a similar range of serial number and had the MkI style forend in beech with the mag cut off relief, as mine did also.

That might fit with some or all of the remaining No.4 trials rifle furniture being used to set up those early No4(T)s, whether done at H&H or RSAF(E)

[Lance]

Sharp eye with the pictures provided. It does have a Trials forend. s/n 12280!