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Bayonets is bayonets...for no one or nothing special. This whole idea is ridiculous...unfortunately we're too far removed by 70 or so years to be able to prove it's simply ridiculous so threads like this exist...page after page. Common sense no longer works for some.
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01-15-2017 08:00 AM
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Another blast of Common sense from BAR in Canada..... The contractor makes what the purchaser tells him, marks it where and with what he tells him exactly as per the contract.
The why's and wherefores, contracts, markings, quantities and dates are not in dispute. But bayonets specifically ordered for Lanchesters IS in dispute. There will be a Naval Ordnance BR somewhere that identifies the stores reference number of the bayonets and associated stores. I wonder how that identifies Lanchester specific bayonets............. Nope...., me neither!
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Originally Posted by
green
for Admiralty
Right, but for any use they determine.
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With the fewest words yet, I think that you have summed it up perfectly BAR. I think Senior NCO's and WO's go on a secret course somewhere where they learn to precis everything down to the very basics needed to do the job. Example.......
After a particularly gruelling and filthy wet morning and part afternoon on the field firing range and training area, as an almost lowest of the low Lieutenant, I took a dishevelled group down to a Company Office area and a CSM came out and said simply '....... all of you...., get into 3 ranks'. Looking at me standing slightly aside he said '.....and you'. To which I politely told him that these were my blokes and Sgt X was going to meet us here (to show us/them the kit washing and drying area). Without batting an eye lid, he just said '.....well stand in front of 'em then......'. Few words, did the job and........... Miserable xxxxx.
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Some of these late production 1907 bayonets are sometimes advertised as being "Lanchester" or "Naval Contract" with an inflated price tag just because they may have the factory Dispersal Code marked on them which is the bit which I don't get. I don't see how the dispersal code = Naval use. If someone has information to show that it does then please post it so that everyone can benefit from understanding the information.
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Exactly the point. But just reading this thread and answers elsewhere, the Naval 'sandblasted blade' contract is dated 1941 (or is it '42) and the MoS coded ones - the reputedly Admiralty ones seem to be dated 1944. Nope...., I don't get it either. It could drive your average bayonet collecting fiend crackers. Mind you, not as crackers as the reloading fiends seem to be. Just joking lads......
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