ENFORCER 298

[Alan de Enfield]

Meant to say, you can see on my photo the brilliant work on the non slip carving by Colin Moon

Did Colin do the non-slip on the butt as well ?

I know he supplied the forend, but as far as I know the butts came directly into PH from Sile (Italy)

[Gil Boyd]

Alan,
The job I remember was given to Moon, where he got the finished job done who cares where he outsourced the work to, and I wouldn't blame him for using outside sources too, however, he did a lot of work for the MoD in the post war era, making the Enforcer hand guards, & re-runs of cheekpieces for the L42’s & any odd reserve stored 4T’s that needed them too, which is confirmed in historical documents.
Sad loss the company and he's been dead 10 years plus.

[Alan de Enfield]

Alan,
The job I remember was given to Moon, where he got the finished job done who cares where he outsourced the work to, and I wouldn't blame him for using outside sources too, however, he did a lot of work for the MoD in the post war era, making the Enforcer hand guards, & re-runs of cheekpieces for the L42’s & any odd reserve stored 4T’s that needed them too, which is confirmed in historical documents.
Sad loss the company and he's been dead 10 years plus.

Thanks for that, but my point was that PH purchased the butts directly from SILE, and were shipped to PH they (apparently) never went near Brighton, so I wonder if that 'anti-slip' was just a special one off for 'a mate'

[FlightRN]

Steve,
There wasn't a recognised transit case perse...............most Police Forces opted for a black PELI style case with foam pre cut.

Good Day Gil,
A few years ago, pictures were posted on-line of transit cases attributed to Police departments. I was floored when one of them had my serial number, 547, marked on the outside. The number might mean something else but I'd like to believe its the long long transit case for my rifle and remains with a collector/shooter in the UK. The inside foam has been cut for a bipod which my rifle does not have. this could have been a later modification once the rifle and case were separated.
Regards,
Michael

[Lee Enfield]

Meant to say, you can see on my photo the brilliant work on the non slip carving by Colin Moon. I have only see one other ENFORCER rifle done like this, anybody else got any of his fine carvings on their rifles??
When you look at the HO contract to PH, what an absolute mess we were in those days!!
I am sure this was the same in many Forces, they bought more Enforcers than they actually needed as we did in Mid Anglia/Cambridge/Peterborough/Ely Police force, renamed Cambridgeshire Constabulary. I know who owns my original issue Enforcer and he won't part with it!!

Looks just like the typical SSG69/ Kriko pattern, also used on the PH m86/87 wood and m85 McMillian stocks.

[Gil Boyd]

Michael,

I recollect chests like that, but they were made locally and the foam was just a slab no cutouts. Individuals and every Force seemed to be doing its own thing at the time as there was no one company tasked with making the chests for Enforcers to my knowledge. So in short anything that kept the rifle and scope safe was used. Every Enforcer seems to have mis matched wood and butt rubbers. Most were from PH