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[gsimmons]

Thanks for that mental image, you barsteward!

[bigduke6]

Please don't conjure up any images of me with wine and listening to Barry White..........

More like Dark neat rum with beer chasers and listening to Blaster Bates and if I do something with the lighting it will be a lot brighter

[Vincent]

If I remember correctly, Ordnance made available the steel sling loop from the rear of the return spring cap. They were a two part item, ready shaped to fit with a male and female end that joined together externally. Then the the other ends slipped in the opening of the return spring cap. The M&F parts were brazed together, made good and sent through the phosphate plant. We also used these replacement sling loops on the Navy Lanchesters that came through the workshop

Thank you for that useful information, Peter.



Now it only takes a few seconds to melt the braze and they pop right off. And I have a spare if I ever need one.

[Peter Laidler]

That's it Vince! My memory isn't so bad after all. Never saw one before my spell in Base Workshop and never saw one afterwards. Something for the collectors to know should they ever need to make one.

I recall when generally rough ex Egyptian (?) Navy old spec fully-working dewat Lanchesters were being sold off by the trade in the UK for £60. The really rough ones were less! Mind you, the Aust, NZ and Royal navy had some rough old things on their small Far East coastal ships too. All ours went out with No4 butt plates and butt sling loops and were blackened in the usual way. My friend who was a ships Officer in Singapore during the mid 60's lead boarding parties in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore and in the Southern South China Sea with mixed SEATO navy crews armed with them. He said that they looked archaic even then!