Accessories, lets see them!

[Peter Laidler]

Do you know what the spring balances and the Gauge, plug, bore in your line-up are for ShtLE?

We have a set of Ross wire cutters Warren but they don't look quite like that. I'll compare the two next week

[Sht_LE]

The spring balance with the punch and driver is a Lewis Machine Gun combination tool made by Salter, the other is a Trigger Pull Spring Gauge for the MLE/SMLE (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) also made by Salter. The Gauge, plug, bore is Canadian made and marked for the Rifle No.4, it also has a C broad arrow electro-penciled on it. I tried my wire cutters once. Found they worked great on tight strung barbed wire, and were hopeless when confronted with a loose tangle of concertina wire or loosely draped barbed wire. They also add considerable weight to the very front of the rifle (especialy with the bayonet fixed) and wrecks the handling.

A few more accessories:


Trigger Pull Gauge.


Parker sight tool, No.4 bolt head fixture, Aim Corrector.


Sight Adjusters, clockwise from top left, SMLE (repro), SMLE, P.14, No.4


Not exactly an Enfield accessorie, but still neat.


Parade/Drill spike bayonet. Anyone have any info on this one?


Hookies. Top to bottom Lithgow 1' 1915, Wilkinson 1' 1909, Sanderson 11' 1909

[P-07ShortLee]

Fletch, TerryLee & Warren, Interesting posts! Thanks for adding them!

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ShtLE, Very Nice!

The bayonets are very nice!

[Sht_LE]

Your going to hate me about the bayonets..... I paid $200 for the Sanderson and $175 for the Lithgow a few months ago. Picked them up from a a bayonet collector friend that got them from an estate sale. The Wilkinson I found at an antique shop 16 years ago and paid $50 for. and I got the dates backwards, the Wilkinson is 11' 09 and the Sanderson is 1'09.

[Peter Laidler]

ShtLE, I think the left hand spring balance is set up for the Vickers. One end of the string in the crook of the finger and the other under the crank to test the weight of the fuzee spring and after, to test the friction weight of the packing. You could use it to test barrel lift I suppose but we always used the trigger tester as shown elsewhere more recently in this thread. The plug bore gauge looks to me like the .380" Enfield GAUGE, testing, straightness of bore. I don't remember a rifle gauge that shape

[Warren]

The spike bayonet with the ball tip was used for ceremonial parades so the flags and colours would not get shredded when flapping in the breeze around the mounted (affixed) bayonets Originally many just used a black painted golf ball with a hole drilled in them on the tip of the bayonet but then they actually came up with the bayonet. No scabbard however :-)##

[Sht_LE]

Appreciate the info on the spring balance Peter, thanks. As for the gauge, I had not seen one exactly like it either. The markings on it read in five lines: M.T.W. .303 DIA. RIFLE No.4 BARREL D 267 Then it has an electro-penciled #11N over a C broad arrow. I got it from Numrich, but that would have been around 18 years ago. Anyone have any info on it?

[Peter Laidler]

I don't recognise the handled .303 gauge unless it's a variation of our worn leed gauge (Gauge No2 something or other as I recall.....). All ours are usually marked with an SM prefix. Are they still SM prefixed in Oz Son?

Incidentally, talking of gauges, the Armourers gauge SM75, GAUGE, plug .306" No2 for the Vickers machine gun was declared obsolete last year. It missed the cull during the Bren and L4 gauge cull because it didn't feature on the gauge list for the Bren family. But this gauge was used to test the leed of Bren LMG barrels still in Cadet service.

It's obsolescent meant that the very last vestige of the old Vickers MMG had finally gone from British Service, 40+ years after the gun was declared obsolete. So if you've got a gauge SM 75, that was used to calibrate Vickers OverHead Fire (OHF) barrels, there's a bit of history for you

[Simon P]

Not sure what its for, however its broad arrow marked & has the same thread for the Parker Hale cleaning jags & brushes. I use it to clean the chambers on my Martini Enfield`s
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[fergs]

Parade/Drill spike bayonet. Anyone have any info on this one?

more for bayonet practice so you dont stab the instructor if thats what you ment by drill
Fergs