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shamu yes it does .I can confirm 
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I see the dispersal rifles are similar to the WWI peddled sceme rifles; in that they don't have maker's name on the receiver between crown and date.

Glad to see you've found the bayonet. Looks very nice. 
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Originally posted by Zed Zed wrote:

I see the dispersal rifles are similar to the WWI peddled sceme rifles; in that they don't have maker's name on the receiver between crown and date.

The B on the wrist right side denotes BSA and indicates production with prewar components till stocks are exhausted then shifting to reused components in late 1943. I'm quoting from another nameless web site.

Glad to see you've found the bayonet. Looks very nice. 


Still looking this was an older photo of the bayonet and scabbard.

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Originally posted by Zed Zed wrote:

I see the dispersal rifles are similar to the WWI peddled sceme rifles; in that they don't have maker's name on the receiver between crown and date.

Glad to see you've found the bayonet. Looks very nice. 

thats because only BSA was making them at that time , everyone else plus BSA were makin no4s by that time save the aussies and indians perhaps , this was a very trying time in history and these are very interesting rifles , i think you will find the peddled scheme riffles all date to WWI tho , 
im old and no longer have all my data - im also less than on top of these topics than i was once but i think im right - someone will correct me if im wrong here , but i dont think so ............

edited to add that there were no british producers of the P1907 in that era either , its why i secured an assie made 1942 to go with the rifle , but near any P1907 might have been issued with it , there were many in stores and in the supply chain as they had been refurbed between the wars , i kinda wanted one dated the same to keep with it , but a rework dated that date would have done as well , 

the production in 42-43-44 would have been devoted to no4 items , the war was full on and everything was fair game as we have seen by the mk5 that was press4ed into service after dunkirk , life was as complicated as we might imagine and nothing was left to waste then , 
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Oh yes! I forgot that it was only BSA making the No1 type rifles in the UK during WWII. 

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no problem , i only put it down for those that might be confused by the thread and think there were other "dispersals" of that era , i know very little of astrailian or indian production of that era , they may well have been practicing similar manufacturing protocol but , only the british BSA rifles are called "dispersal" because of the bombing , it gives them a distinction i found very interesting in the supply stream , 

no mkIII* rifles were produced in north america at all , only no4s 
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Originally posted by Zed Zed wrote:

I see the dispersal rifles are similar to the WWI peddled sceme rifles; in that they don't have maker's name on the receiver between crown and date.

There is, but it consists of a single letter. B.S.A.Co marked the dispersals only with "B" on that line, possibly to distance themselves from the lower quality especially in the furniture and finish. On a peddled scheme rifle, that line is omitted entirely.
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