5T Inglis

[Tom E Gun]

I just purchased this 5T Inglis form another member and wanted to show it off a little:

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[Brian Dick]

That's a beauty. You have good reason to show it off!

[browningautorifle]

I sure saw lots of them, but they haven't been in the shape of that one for many years...very nice.

[Tom E Gun]

Thanks for the comments guys. I remember being really excited when I found a tiny remnant of decal on my 0T series. This one is a little more obvious

Here is a close up of the serial number and stamps, the C> is very lightly struck on this one. There are a lot more machining marks visible on the slide, than on my 0T:

[browningautorifle]

Any remnant of the decal is good. More is better. That one's fine.

[Peter Laidler]

When I was an apprentice, learning the inside and out of the Brownings in 1964 (under the eagle eyes of Mr Stone and Sgt Etchells who I met up with again in '12) all of our Brownings were 0T and very low numbers and all had the full decal present. Prior to our group, the pistol taught was the old No2 revolver so the Brownings were brand new from Ordnance where they'd been since they were shipped over here.

The full EMER hadn't even been forumulated so the instructors were hurriedly pooling their knowledge prior to teaching us and writing it. We also had Canadian user handbooks and if I remember correctly, some of the part designations were incorrect and we had to bar through and re-name them. Was LEVER, locking slide one of them that rings a bell.....?

[browningautorifle]

We also had Canadian user handbooks

Those books come from the fertile mind of the Infantry School SA instructors that are currently not employed on a course. I was watching them (at a distance) re-writing amendments for current weapons and some had a pitiful lack of imagination and actual weapons knowledge... In your day they were stationed in Borden Ontario, which is a base completely transformed now.

[Peter Laidler]

We also had to section some of them as per - or close to - a factory example that was with them. Later I did one for the Browning pistol display at Warminster and another that we gave away

[browningautorifle]

Browning pistol display at Warminster

That would be neat to go back and cast your eyes on. I did a display for our own school at Gagetown that included SA from turn of the century forward. All up on display boards in the concourse. Don't know if they still exist though.

[Steve1987]

Nice looking pistol

-Steve