Weird place for a Lee Enfield receiver

[No4Mk1(T)]

I think we should arm ourselves with a couple more of these little tanks, take two or three of them to the US, Canada and Australia, and when the Colonials and Antipodeans get restless, then we can sort them out!

I don’t think you’ll have much problem here in Canada. Most of us have become quite used to immigrants with quaint ideas. That is unless I spread the rumor you’re here to steel our beer, close Tim Horton’s and cancel the next hockey season.
Now as for the lads from my home land (I was born in the US) keep in mind what happen last time your lot came over for a visit. The saying “there is a gun behind every blade of grass” is more true now than ever. Not that we’ll need them…we’ll just let all of the soccer moms (foot ball to you) run your wee little tanks off the road with our large American SUV and pick-ups.

[spinecracker]

Getting back on topic (was there ever a topic to this post???), what is the weirdest place you have seen or found Lee Enfield components? If they ended up on tanks, they probably ended up being cobbled together with other bits of equipment....

[Peter Laidler]

Hey, wierdest place for Lee Enfield components.......... My Friend and fellow Armourer Peter Smallwood was building his own house, very slowly over a couple of years and when he got to building the roof joists etc etc decided that he needed some really stout bolts to fix them all together. So if you look into the big old roof beams of his house, you'll see it all held together at the apex and elsewhere with big BSF hexagonal bolts, about 4" or so long, that look remarkably similar to No4 stock bolts!

Every Armourers tool box has assorted drifts made from No4 strikers and SLR pistons. I used SLR pistons to align the boot floor holes with the subframe when restoring my Mini Cooper. Sten gun, 'CAP, return spring' tabbed press-outs (have a look at your Sten, you'll see what I mean....) were used as locking tabs for Bedford truck and tank engines

[Bindi2]

I think we should arm ourselves with a couple more of these little tanks, take two or three of them to the US, Canada and Australia, and when the Colonials and Antipodeans get restless, then we can sort them out!

I should warn you that we have a new weapon here that is top of the wazza so secret it is unnamed. It is a slingy thingy that lobs cannisters of sticky gooie stuff that bogs tanks sinks gunboats and sticksup any thing that slides or swivels it also has a built in noxious posion gas. So who will sort who. U should or before we get restless

[spinecracker]

Uhoh, I didn't expect that a simple question would unleash weapons of mass ickiness :O

Then again, being British, I am not renowned for tact when dealing with my Nevadan neighbors...and they are all armed.

[Alfred]

The Italians used Carcano actions to power a small spigot mortar, and also had a Carbine with dedicated launcher mounted on the side which used the same bolt as the carbine action. When using the launcher they had to slip the bolt from the carbine action out and into the modified action of the GL.
I suppose in practice the fellow assigned the launcher would pick up a spare bolt when possible.

PS
The Ontos had six recoilless Rifles. I think there may have been a version with four RR and two Mini-guns.
The standard six gun version had spotter .50 guns mounted to four of its guns.

The major use of the Ontos was in firing beehive rounds which could devastate anything ahead of it in the jungle for quite a distance.

[Bindi2]

Uhoh, I didn't expect that a simple question would unleash weapons of mass ickiness :O

Then again, being British, I am not renowned for tact when dealing with my Nevadan neighbors...and they are all armed.

You can blame that bloke Pete the Pom he reckoned i was unclean and wants to hose me down with a co ax. I know the mud bakes hard but water works ok under a week. Looks like rain so had better duck out for this weeks shower donnt want to get coaxed.

[Mk VII]

Some trench mortars in the Great War used a Lee action to initiate the charge.

[Alfred]

Theres a grenade launcher that has been used in Southeast Asia thats made from a No.4 cut down and fitted with a launcher tube to handle NATO type grenades.
I have photos of one of these.
The GL uses a pistol grip and tube stock similar to the M4 Carbine but not adjustable. The ladder sight is moved up to the receiver ring.
The whole thing is very compact.

There were very short cut down No.1 rifles used by Sappers during WW1, these resemble the smoke dischargers and may have been the inspiration for those.
Smoke dischargers without the cup have been used as starter pistols for yatch races. The distances being too great for normal pistol blanks to be heard clearly.

[Peter Laidler]

Talking of all things odd.... does anyone have a magazine catch and spring from an M8C .50" spotting rifle?