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Pics of No.15 No.4 Mk1(T) chests
The enclosed pictures might be of interest. I have seen No.15 chests with yellow painted ends or a wide yellow strip to indicate the chest holds a rilfe less telescopic sight. I have also seen yellow daubs of paint used to inventory units. This box removes all doubt.
Sniper rilfes are a pain because of storage problems with the wood boxes. I had to move part of collection because I lost a storage garage due to the owner wanting it back to store a project car through the winter.
Note the Canadian
No.7 box on the top of the stack of 25. A couple of the boxes have unit markings. One was Royal Scots.
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I can help buy purchasing a few that I need for my collection! Shall I email you a "want list"??
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I agree, transit chests can be a pain and they certainly take up a lot of space. That must be some collection you have if all of those boxes have partners.
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In the armouries where we had them, the rifles were stored in the box together with the CES plus the snipers binos and compass. The box was locked and the Arms storeman had a key so that during the Field Officers weekly check they could see and count but noone else had access to them. With the Welch Regiment, the bolts were in the rack where the rifle would usually be so that you could see that the 'rifle' was there in spirit but locked in its chest. Same happened with the L42's too
All the rest of the storeage chests, such as the Brens and 2" mortars etc were shoved under the firing point of the indoor 25 yard range.
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They were made by Papworth Industries in Cambridgeshire during the War by disabled WW1 servicemen. The site is now the world famous Papworth hospital and some of the old buildings are still standing. They also made Bren chest and other stuff too
Others and Bren chests were made by the big furniture makers of Elliots of Newbury in 'knock-down' form. The orangy/brownish colour paint inside the Bren chests is the same as used as the paint on the inside of Horsa gliders which they also made. As is the kakhi on the outside of the Elliots boxes. I don't know what paint they used on the Papworth boxes.
The trouble with the chests now is that they're just a xxxxxy expensive way of storeing fresh air. Unless you store your rifle in it. About 10 or so years ago I saw a pile of 8 or 10 outside an Ex Surplus shop on the Botley Road in Oxford, advertised as '...handy carpenters tool boxes'. While talking of carpenters, we used to send the broken chests to the Carpenters shop for general repair and the like and the chippy used to repair the tops and fronts using lengths of old 'TABLES, GS, 6'. that all you ex squaddies will remember, as they were made from perfect un-knotted, straight grain, pitch pine board
Just another bit of useless information that sort-of relates to the Lee Enfield legend
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Looking at so many empty chests, I don't resist to say I am looking for one... but I understand I am not alone...
If somebody wants to send me a personal message ?
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If repro No32 scopes are being made, then surely these chests should be an absolute doddle. While you're doing a few for yourself Pat, maybe you could do 50 for the remainder of the needy!
I'm thinking kitchen fitting machinery...................
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breakeyp, I wonder if the yellow paint designated that there was a 'scope numbered to the rifle in another box. My unfinished BSA-Shirley's transit case only has "(T LESS TELESCOPE)" stenciled on it's transit chest, not a touch of yellow paint.
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pbreakey is yanking your collective chains. Those chests are his, BUT he has the contents for each one and they are NOT FOR SALE. However. if your pockets are very deep, and you can prove you are a REAL collector who truly appreciates Enfields, you MAY be able to purchase the entire collection in about 30 to 40 years.
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