Dating A Sterling SMG

[Flying10uk]

Is there a way of finding out the date of manufacture of a Sterling SMG, please. I'm guessing this is achieved by the serial number. Is there a list of serial Nos for the Sterling with corresponding dates of manufacture somewhere, please? Thanks for any info.

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[Peter Laidler]

There's a good little book out that contains pages and huge batches of serial numbers against dates of dispatch.

[Flying10uk]

Do you happen to know the name of the book please, Peter?

[Gil Boyd]

would it be the "Guns of Dagenham": Lanchester, Patchett, Sterling by Peter Laidler, David Howroyd (ISBN: 9780889352049) from Amazon's Book Store per chance?