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A Neat .22 Trainer... With Provenance
Last edited by SpikeDD; 04-10-2010 at 08:27 AM.
David
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04-09-2010 10:51 PM
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Very nice, David---see, it doesn't hurt to post pictures of beautiful rifles.
You should do it more often.
So there.
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devon Army Cadet Force HQ was at Mutley Barracks in Plymouth, now sadly knocked down as I seem to remember. We sold a SWIFT training rifle from there several years ago. There were originally 5 Cadet Battalions down there. Now there is only one, spread out in platoon strength across the whole County. Things change..........
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Peter, thank you very much. This raises yet another question. It has been suggested that BSA, not being a government facility in the 50's, had done their FTR's for outside of government contracts. It would have made sense that any British government work needed doing would have been sent to Fazakerly. Do you think it is a "stretch of the mind" in thinking this rifles provenance suggests that BSA was also being contracted by the British government to do work? I'm thinking this had to be the case, at least for the Mk.III rifles, as Fazakerly never made them and wouldn't have had the parts on hand... where better to send one for a FTR than a facility already set up and doing them? I know anything is possible, just wondering if you had heard anything supporting it over the years.
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The Army certainly wouldn't have FTR'd old obsolete No2 rifles at that time. If one needed FTR it'd have been scrapped for certainty and a replacement issued. No8 rifles were already in the pipeline then.
I wouldn't mind betting that this was a Navy rifle who would have used the BSA facility. It would have been issued to Sea/Navy Cadets and then found itself within the pooled resources of the Cadet empire..........
Old obsolete No2 rifles were certainly in the Cadet system for many, many years until slowly replaced by the No8 but the Public School cadets (the CCF's) had their own until recently.
Fazakerley were really a one-trick-pony so far as FTR's were concerned with Stens and No4's their bread and butter
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Is the actual marking "FTR" a military designated mark?
If so, would a rifle under refurbishment intended for a non-british contract have been marked so?
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Yes, in short. We have a .50" Browning, captured from the submarine the Santa Fe in Georgia. That carries FTR 1955 markings from BSA
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