Chris Hall

The .50 cal is probably worth £1000 to £1500 in the UK depending on exact model, condition and manufacturer. The mount I have no idea, is it for a weapons carrier? (I have no idea about vehicles)

I see its been sold now, someones been ripped off. I would like to have seen how good the machining to the mag well was. Did you see the big slot under the barrel? That isn't required as part of the deactivation so why it was done I don't know (Certainly not to make it a Cutaway). The lower was from a Mk1 skeleton action and would never be used on a live gun, never mind a L4, and the Barrel was from a L4A1 not a L4A2/3/4/5 or 6. I think the buyer will be very disapointed for £850! If you can hang on for a while, I believe there may be a few L4A3s coming on to the market soon very similiar condition to my own.

I think you mean Arundel militaria. The one on that site is the same one that was on about 1 week ago for a lot more money, but now he has swapped the butt, removed the red paint on the barrel and hasn't mentioned the skeleton sections at all. Its a made up gun, not orignal at all, the barrel isnt even correct for a L4A3. I emailed him some questions and have been ignored on a few occasions, all I wanted to know was what marking were on the gun, if it was a L4A3, the Bren Mk2 marking would be barred out and new markings applied. They arn't there.

I helped a member from another forum report another possibly located Bomber missing since may 1940. The aircraft and 3 crew were never found and it looks like this gent has located it by accident. He found some rather large parts on the surface and the aircraft serial number on one part matches the missing plane. The JCCC are investigating so I hope we find another 3 missing airman.

Here, try this SSgt Gareth Evans. 1623evans@armymail.mod.uk. 33ENGR-21FdSqnEOD- SQMS 1623evans@armymail.mod.uk is his military email.

Most of the L4s I quoted above are Mike Ps guns and all are Ex NZ guns. I didnt realise Mike still had some left.

Thanks for that. We Brits always left the original serial numbers and markings in place but barred through them with 2 parralell lines. The original L4A1s retained the original LB number but the L4A2 had new numbers starting with UE59A1 marked above the original LB number. The L4A3 had its own set of serial numbers starting from UE62A1 and the L4A4 continued with the same serial sequence as the L4A2 starting at approx UE61A10000. Intrestingly, in 1961 Enfield were still assembling new .303" Mk3s and producing converted L4A4s at the same time, the new .303 mk3 guns at this time also had the new format serial numbers like UE61A6901 (One of my own guns).

Hi Andy, Is you gun a 1947 dated gun? I have its younger brother LB32589 which is still a Mk3. I suspect your gun is a also a Ex New Zealand gun but I cant be sure. Can you tell me who deactivated it? Cheers, Chris.

Sorry for the late reply, I've just got back from 9 weeks of trials in the USA. Your L4A4 is a Ex New Zealand contract gun from 1973. It was one of a large number imported back in the mid 1990s and was deactivated by Mike Priest of Priest firearms. There are a number of surviving examples from this contract. [TABLE=width: 67] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, width: 89, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19699[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19703[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19719[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19721[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19722[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl64, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19723[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19725[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19726[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19728[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19732[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19743[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19745[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19747[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19750[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19769[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19774[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19775[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19804[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19806[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19831[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19837[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19840[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19845[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19848[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19852[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: xl63, bgcolor: lime]UE73A19860[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

AD is the prefix of Lithgow in Australia. The UB is BSA but the number is a restamp.

Tell him not to give up, I've seen much worse in service. It cant be too bad.

As mentioned they are 13.2mm Hotchkiss rounds.

Ron, If you decide you need a spare WD/L engine I know where there is one but its £300!!!

It still awesome even after being directly under the display twice a day for the last 3 weeks. The noise gets a deafening though

I came across a petition for a medal for Op Ellamy, it will be a NATO medal so wouldn't cost the government a penny. Other nations are recieving it but the UK Gov hasn't confirmed it. http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31075

I've been using the L85 for the last 17 years and I've always been wary of the bolt flying back and forth millimeters from my face. The last photo above shows a rifle that the shooter had a very lucky escape from. A Afghan AK round went through the back end and the guy got some frag in the face, very luck chap, had it been a different gun it could have been a different outcome for him.

Surely if you were to fire a L85 in the left shoulder, you'd get more than just shells, you'd get a smashed cheek bone with a cocking handle sticking out.

STENs maybe old but they still work and so many are only just being released from reserve. The current lot of STENs are ex finish guns that went to Africa and have recently come back. You will notice that hundreds of them have replica stocks as they were missing when imported. Others have simply been chopped up because they had become obsolete and were cheap, after all they were the first disposable gun.

Singer assembled all Mk1 STENs from parts produced all over the UK, Lines Brothers provided many parts and when they were shown a example of a STEN mk1, they thought no,no,no, thats not how it should be done and redesigned it with mass production using stampings in mind and so the Mk3 evolved. At the same time as this, it was known that the Mk1 was to complicated for fast production and many sections requested a STEN which was easier to break down for packing and concealment and so the Mk2 was born. So the Mk1 to 3 were produced at the same time for a period. This is my Singer STEN Mk1, it is an original and not one of the copies that are around, there are a number of ways to identify a original, people are being cought out by these repros so just ask if your considering buying one. There was a dealer selling one recently for over £2000 and it was a copy made from Mk2 parts, he wouldn't have it untill I pointed out the Indian markings and where the Mk2 parts had been modified for a Mk1. It had a SOLD addition to the advert on his web site the next day so I don't know if a unsuspecting buyer had bought it or if he had removed/returned it.

Its nothing like the bomb hoist I've seen, I used to use the type C which I believe is similar to that used on the Lanc and its alot different.

Theres a couple of things I can tell from looking at it. 1 is that it dosn't appear to have gone to Finland as many did, and 2, it hasn't remained in British use and more than likely not in Indian use either. I think there were approx 4 million STEN of all marks produced. There were a number of assemblers, Lines Brothers, Longbranch, and a number of Royal Ordnace factories as well as a small number or derivatives in Aus and NZ. The thing with the STEN is that there were litterly Hundreds of manufacturers making parts to be sent to assembly plants so STEN serial abc1234 could be produced with totally different manufacturers parts to serial abc1235. The only way to identify who actually made the parts to the gun, would be to look for the codes or logos of companies and ID them. Lines Brothers did make a number of parts them selves, in fact they probably made more individual parts than anyone else.

We are a signatory (And so are Russia) but the government are reluctant to pursue a legal case against someone as if they loose, there will a flood gate opened and we will see thousands of cheap deacs coming into the country. At the moment they are happy that scare tactics are working (As long as they dont take someone to court).

The fire didn't do the dammage, it was the water they used to put the fire out. He told me that the warehouse burnt down but the contents were piled up and it all collapsed onto the piles. The water was then sprayed ontop of this to put the fire out and so not all the contents burned, the stuff was pulled apart and the resulting stacks were left rusting like that, the wood got water damaged and then bleached. Because it was the late 60s no one was intrested in this crap as there were tons of good weapons around and so it was left as scrap. The guy is called Philip Peterson, he's quite happy to chat so drop him a mail.

What is it your looking for, we able to help with one in the UK

I know the owner of that site and he told me it was Vietnam after a warehouse fire but all that stuff has long, long been cleared.