Telescope, Scout Regt Mk IIs

[CINDERS]

Mine reads;
TELE. SCT REGT MkII S

H B M Co OS 126 GA

REGd No 4919

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Interestingly the leather scope carry case is painted grey/bluey colour would this have been Air Force issue or someone post war painting it.

[Alan de Enfield]

Mine reads;
TELE. SCT REGT MkII S

H B M Co OS 126 GA

REGd No 4919

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Interestingly the leather scope carry case is painted grey/bluey colour would this have been Air Force issue or someone post war painting it.

I have an RAF issue No4T, and whilst the 'box' is painted blue, non of the contents are :

[CINDERS]

Yep my telescopes leather carry case is exactly the same colour as your "T"s transit chest Alan.

[Surpmil]

Are you only interested in the Tel. Sct. Regt. Mk.II S Lance?

In WWI "Consol" (Consolidated Optical Co.) of Toronto, Ontario produced the typical three draw telescopes; Signaller's and GS if I remember correctly.

I have a couple of them, but don't remember which they are at the moment.

In WWII some of the same basic type were produced by Research Enterprises Ltd. to a very high standard, before they dropped the antique concept and went to work on the single-draw Telescope, Snipers, Observing.

[Lance]

Yes, just the Sct. Regt Mk IIs, these telescopes are a Pandora's box that I am trying not to open!

[Peter Laidler]

We often came across the other makes of Tele Sct Regt scopes and they were a problem. The spares were all, seemingly, from B&C and some wouldn't even remotely fit the telescope you were working on without a lot of bench fitting or lathe work and a thread file. That was the reason why many just got the chop. A lot of those from Ordnance went into the watch towers along the Irish border. Then the very nice Swifts came out. Nice to look at but equally troublesome until the maintenance group got to grips with them and authorised locking down the adjustment mechanisms, leaving only the focus adjustable.

You could have 5 sets of spare parts for a Sct Reg scope but still couldn't get it serviceable to the EMER spec. Even B&C spares wouldn't necessarily fit B&C scopes.

Someone mentioned RAF regiment snipers. The RAF kits had some really nice B&C telescopes in the kits. One type I remember was the little x20 BRITANNIC scope and another the x20 NELSON scope. Both the same but a different nautical name. I kept a Britannic when I had a chance to write one off and it is marked 'A crown M above 1940 above the RAF part number 9E/857' with the B&C logo too. Quite why the RAF needed sniper kits was something we often wondered about........

[tj214]

Rock apes!!!