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F224D sounds like a steel batch number, I.e. they can track the batch if one fails.

The Greeks had thousands of Bren in service and they sold them off to the market in the 1980s. Kent Exports...

By stock, I assume you mean the lower, the stock or butts weren’t numbered unless it was a CZ Bren. The lower would be and is totally correct with all the fancy machining. The barrel nut has been...

I’ll give you a break down of what you have.

The Body is a December 39 assembled item.
The barrel is a Monotype Mk2 from 41-45 manufacture.
The barrel lock is Mk3 so could be 1944 right upto the...

December 39, post some photos as it may be ex Irish.

No big secret, they’ve been known about for years and this is where the new in the box Thomsons on the U.K. market 10+ years ago came from.

The England import stamp is a U.S. import requirement for the origin of the rifle when manufactured. Unfortunately the importers didn’t care that it was manufactured in Canada, or that the Savage...

The butt plate is from a No1Mk3.

I would say Royal Ordnance Factory Poole.

Just checked my list and I owned 166,167,168,169,171,172, and 173. I sold 167, 169 and 171. I also sold 181, 182, 185, and still own 11 others. At one point I owned a 3rd of the survivors

D8619 was for sale by the gunner back in 2015 but I didn’t make a note of the price. It is a first stage intermediate (D4713 to E1792 is the closest I’ve pinned this stage down to).

I think that’s one of my old ZBs, 168? glad it went to a good home. Do you know which battalion it served with?

And to add, the gun looks to be post mid 42 assembled as it has the clip on trigger housing cover.

E & Co only made that component, the gun would have been assembled at one of the ROFs and the serial would help pin that down. No STENs left the factory with paint except the mk5 guns, these used the...

A genuine Breda 37 too, normally they end up being M938s. I’ve still not found a good supply of ammo strips, they 938s are a different calibre and the 8mm doesn’t fit the same. I did have luck in...

As far as I remember, the 2 versions were based upon the same scabbard, you could even demand the extra parts to make the cheap version into the expensive version. I think the 2 versions with the...

It’s one of the Lithgow FTR guns, these were some of the nicest guns on the market as they were near new. The barrel and Bipod are of Lithgow production, the bipod being called the Mk3.

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Fine adjustment for something like a sight.

I’ll take a punt that it has MA52 on the left side, has many MA, BA and SLAZ marked parts. I’d also guess it was deactivated by Ryton Arms and was purchased from Witham SV. I purchased a few from the...

The risk is, that you never know the real state of something you’ve dug out of the ground. People have been killed because they think they know what they are doing, and 9 out of times nothing...

Well I’m pretty convinced you’ve nailed it. I’ve looked at a few photos and I think your right. Kev Groom either has one or used to have one so I bet he could confirm it.

The letter author has a few errors, Government to Government sales of weapons don’t require proof. I believe also that the BPH didn’t date code the proof during and just after the war.

It’s quite...

I’d be interested in the 1911 if it’s for sale?

I wonder if it’s a puller for something? Screw the outer part up the thread to the top of the inner part. Screw the inner part into the item to be extracted/removed. Hold the knurled inner part and...

I used to own, when we could, a .357 model 586 6”. Awesome gun, couldn’t miss even if I fired backward. Colt 1911 however, couldn’t hit a barn door until I stopped aiming and just pointed.

For me that link is just a blank page but it could be because I’m on my phones browser.

If the poster uses the name TonyE then it will be correct. He passed away a few years ago but was very very...