Edward Elwell Ltd was a company in Wednesbury (now in the county of West Midlands), England, that manufactured edge tools at Wednesbury Forge. The company was founded in 1817, and the forge closed in 2005. Edward Elwell (1783–1869),son of an ironfounder in  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walsall" rel="nofollow - Walsall , leased a forge in 1817 in Wood Green, Wednesbury, powered by water from the  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Tame,_West_Midlands" rel="nofollow - River Tame . There had been a water-powered forge in Wednesbury since at least 1597, when William Whorwood leased a forge owned by William Comberford. It may have been the same site as the forge at Wood Green, which by 1785 was one of four forges in the town.

Edward Elwell became known as a maker of quality edge tools, such as axes, hoes, shovels and spades. The machinery was powered by water and by steam engines. By 1851 Edward Elwell's son Edward (1814–1857) had taken over management of the company, but he resumed control on his son's death; his grandson Alfred took over when he died in 1869.

The company exported to many countries, including America, where it sold large quantities of edge tools during the  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" rel="nofollow - American Civil War . The company was interested in the welfare of its workforce, converting former workshops into housing, and developing sports facilities.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pauls_Church,_Wood_Green" rel="nofollow - St Paul's Church, Wood Green , completed in 1874, was built by the Elwell family.

After Alfred Elwell's death in 1902 the business became a  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_limited_company" rel="nofollow - private limited company . The water wheels were replaced in 1904 by  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_turbine" rel="nofollow - water turbines . In 1967, the company became one of the amalgamated firms of a newly formed company Spearwell Tools Ltd, and this was later taken over by  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear_%26_Jackson" rel="nofollow - Spear & Jackson . Wednesbury Forge closed in 2005, and the buildings were demolished in 2007..

Nice!

Originally a "Sirhind tool" which the British re-labelled as an INtrenching (not ENtrenching) implement! It was eventually reclassified as an "entrenching tool"

http://www.karkeeweb.com/patterns/1908/1908_sirhind_tool.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.karkeeweb.com/patterns/1908/1908_sirhind_tool.html

Oh especially with "The Pointy bit" on the other end!

A Klingon would love it!

Alot of the ones I have been seeing for sale or up for auction, are missing the  bayonet lugs and the carrier the handle and helve are secured into...

They deleted the bayonet lug on the Mark 2 helve later in the war.

Let me check.

What do you have to trade?

Can not play or have pointed things now can we!

The early ones didn't have it as they were issued in the day of the No1 MkIII, with its giant nosecap. It was later when the No4 with it different front end came out they added the ability to probe with an attached bayonet.

"The Intrenching, pattern 1908 - Helve is a sturdy piece of ash or hickory, about 16 1/2-inches long, with a steel ferrule at one end. It is inserted through the eye of the Tool head. The Helve was unchanged throughout its original service life. Late in WWII, however, after the Implement, entrenching, pattern 1908 had been brought back into service, a Mk. II variant of the Helve would be introduced by ACI 976 dated June 1944. This version had an adapter fitting on the end, so that a "spike" Bayonet from the Lee-Enfield No. 4 Rifle could be fitted to it, for use as a mine probe. This is a Mk. I example. The maker mark is unreadable, but it is dated 1911. From the Karkee Web Collection."

Do you want me to look around?

Might be a WWII sling as WWI are hard to come by.

Let me know.

hoadie: What is the correct sling for you.

I have been going through photos of that day and have noticed that almost every Enfield rifle has a canvas web sling. I did find three that had the leather sling with leather tie straps.

Which do you prefer? 

Probably either, both seem to have overlapped considerably.

"This Sling is a leather strap, 43 1/2-inches long by 1 1/4-inches wide. It has a fixed loop on one end, as well as a free running loop. To fit this sling to a rifle, the free end is passed though the front sling swivel from the rear, then looped around it and passed through, first, the running loop and then the fixed one. The free end is then doubled back through the rifle's rear sling swivel and tied with a leather thong. The Sling is an shorter, narrower version of the Sling, rifle, brown, infantry, introduced under L. of C. 4855, 29th August 1885, as part of the Valise Equipment, Pattern 1882. The Sling, rifle, pattern 1914, was used long after Infantry Equipment, Pattern 1914 was declared obsolete, and was still being manufactured in Australia as late as WWII."

"1937 Pattern Web Equipment (also known as '37 Webbing') was an item of military load-carrying equipment. It replaced the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_Pattern_Webbing" rel="nofollow - 1908 Pattern and 1925 Pattern—on which it was based—and was standard issue for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" rel="nofollow - British and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" rel="nofollow - Commonwealth troops from its introduction in 1937, throughout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" rel="nofollow - World War II , and in the post-war period until it was superseded by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/58_pattern_webbing" rel="nofollow - 1958 Pattern Web Equipment ."

Found this reproduction sling on eBay:

"This Sling is a leather strap, 43 1/2-inches long by 1 1/4-inches wide. It has a fixed loop on one end, as well as a free running loop. To fit this sling to a rifle, the free end is passed though the front sling swivel from the rear, then looped around it and passed through, first, the running loop and then the fixed one. The free end is then doubled back through the rifle's rear sling swivel and tied with a leather thong. The Sling is an shorter, narrower version of the Sling, rifle, brown, infantry, introduced under L. of C. 4855, 29th August 1885, as part of the Valise Equipment, Pattern 1882. The Sling, rifle, pattern 1914, was used long after Infantry Equipment, Pattern 1914 was declared obsolete, and was still being manufactured in Australia as late as WWII."

.........if this was issued in 1916 and you want correct for that era , 

it may well have served in WWII , my 1915 BSA did , in that case 

and if thats what you want then ....the P37 was not used until after 1937 acceptance and is correct for anythiung issued in WW!!

Its a copy/paste from my earlier post:

"The leather with loop Pat '14:"

I guess it depends on your focus.

The Pat'14 was "correct" but really disliked by the troops, so they'd dump them for a Pat '37 in a heartbeat!

Google for "P14 sling" & click "images" & it'll have a couple of rounds wedged into the loop!

No-one really knows why, but things like a "Last Ditch Suicide Round" have been suggested, but why 2 of them?

Another theory is they wedged the strap in place so it would stop slipping when wet & muddy.