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smerdon42
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shamu yes it does .I can confirm
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MJ11
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Zed
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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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MJ11
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Still looking this was an older photo of the bayonet and scabbard. At least it is not in the garden holding up a shrub. I looked. Interrogations will continue.
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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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Zed
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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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WilliamS
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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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