Canadian C1 SMG

[Vincent]

I would like to get a good look at one. Do you know if there's one in a museum?

[browningautorifle]

There will be but which museum? There was one in the military museum in Gagetown New Brunswick...but I don't remember If the war museum in Ottawa has one...

[Vincent]

I just sent emails to those two. Thank you.

[browningautorifle]

Another that comes to mind...the Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's) in the Bay St Armory Victoria BC. They have one...I think...could be hard to get hold of right away.

[Vincent]

Thanks. I will try them too.

[Peter Laidler]

The Sterling guns were drive-pinned in 4 places around the outer circumference. I don't know for sure about the LB manufacture but all alignment, measurements and square were taken from the 6th hole from the front along the top and bottom row of cooling holes. So slotting the, say, foresight block dovetail would see the casing set up into a jig, located on and locked down with a bar through those datum holes. Then mill across.

But, whatever method LB used, I would use this method if I was starting a C1 casing from scratch

[Vincent]

Look closely at the locking ring in the picture on page 208. Does that look like a pin in the same location as the later Sterling guns?

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I think using the first and sixth holes as datum points is very good idea for a scratch build. I hadn’t noticed they were reamed and bigger than the other punched holes until I read about it in your book.

[Peter Laidler]

Sterlings don't have a pin in that location so far as I remember. The closest hole to that is just slightly forwards to locate the corresponding pin in the catch, cap, return spring. The Fazakerley pirated Sterling L2 guns didn't use the slightly enlarged locating holes in the casing. How Fazakerley located things exactly is another of lifes mysteries!

[Vincent]

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The pin through the locking ring seems to have been adapted at some point in the Sterling Mk4 production. It’s very hard to see with the naked eye.

Do you know the purpose of the “D” shaped holes in the casing?

The Fazakerley pirated Sterling L2 guns didn't use the slightly enlarged locating holes in the casing. How Fazakerley located things exactly is another of lifes mysteries!

Ah! That’s a gem, Peter. I found a few parts that don’t have the pins and was wondering if they might be Indian. So they are Fazakerley!

[Vincent]

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My Christmas present from the wife!

It’s an old import and quite rare here these days. Saw cut and has the original barrel. The ones being imported now are torch cut and don’t have a barrel.