The P14 was intended as an improvement to replace the Lee-Enfield and featured a number of accuracy enhancing features incl a front locking bolt, improved bedding system, a heavier barrel and aperture sights. WW1 precluded the planned replacement program so the LE, incl the more refined No4, was kept as the standard. Had WW1 not occurred, and had the Brits established production facilities for the P14, the Lee-Enfield story would have ended in 1914.