Canadian Sniper Observer Tripod

[Alan de Enfield]

Unfortunately not. Seller's age (40s) hints it could have been 1960s, but that's only an unreliable guess.

If I remember correctly 'National Service' was finished (no more conscription) in 1959 and the last intake to leave was in early 1963.

This is what google says .................... National Service ended in 1960, though periods of deferred service still had to be completed. The last national servicemen were discharged in 1963.

[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]