An Armourer's Perspective questions

[Bindi2]

Indeed.. my wife was working in the Bank of England at the time, and she always said that the word in the bank was that they decimalised wrong thing. Instead of changing the value of the penny, they should have changed the value of the pound to match 100 pennies. We ended up with one of the highest value, low end coins in the world at the time, and when inflation kicked in, prices went up 2.4 times higher that they needed to. In other words, instead of retailers adding 1d to the price of something, they added 1p, or 2.4d!

The reason they decimalised the penny was purely political... (so no change there then!)

To those of you who moan about having worthless small denomination coin, be careful! There is a value in having a low denomination minimal value coin when inflation is about!

very correct. The 1 and 2 cent coins have been axed in OZZIE and the 5 cent is not looking good. Advised price and rounding up for cash is common.

[Brian Dick]

There are at least two legit L8T rifles in the USA. Both are listed in “Armourer’s Perspective”. One is a trials rifle listed in the text and the other a later one that’s pictured. I imported them both for different collectors in the past ten years.

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I’ve modified many Mk.1 rear sights over the years too. I only ever used replacements or take offs with smashed battle apertures. I don’t think I ever saw the modification on an original wartime rear sight. I believe it was more prevalent on the L42 but admit I haven’t seen many on original rifles. I’m with Roger that it was a modification done by Armourers at the request of the snipers but certainly not standardized.

[Roger Payne]

Cheers Brian. There you go, the L8T info is in the book!

[Atticus Thraxx]

"Thamesbank was unable to tender due to their being bombed out" might be the most British sentence I've ever read.