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CE1967 No4 Enfield Wood
- Thread starter can14
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- Western Manitoba
From a posting on milsurp site by Brian #### who seems to be quite credible about Lee Enfield stuff, "If it's marked CE1967 it's definitely beech. It was either made in South Africa, or possibly England, for a South African contract. I'm not sure which." So, no doubt there would have been appropriate butt stocks made...
- Location
- Western Manitoba
Spent some time looking and not finding what "CE1967" means - not uncommon for British sub-contractors to be assigned "code numbers" that were marked on parts they made for armouries such as Fazarkerly or BSA Shirley. South Africa apparently ordered a bunch of No. 4 Mk. I from English armoury. Would have likely required all new parts to be made, including stocks, if did not have Old Stock parts on hand. What is available for sale today might be rejects/sub-standard from initial production, production over run, stocks that were produced as "spares" for the rifle order that was being filled, or stocks that have been removed from rifles that were in South Africa. Kind of odd timing for a contract for bolt action rifles - by post WWII, by mid 1950's, most nations going with a semi-auto, or select fire of some sort. I do not know, but suspect the "CE1967" might be stamped on metal parts - could very well have been the contractor producing the metal pieces that were installed on someone else's production of new wood?? Wood pieces themselves often have maker mark on the wood - in the barrel channel, etc. - do not know where the CE1967 was stamped.
I just checked a couple here. I have a rear hand guard, for a heavy barrel No. 4 - probably L42? stamped "C. Moon & Co." in the wood - no metal liners on it. Also have a standard No. 4 rear hand guard with the letter "P" stamped into the wood, but no marks at all on the liner. I have a couple "nose caps" for a No. 4 fore-arm marked "F57" - also have very small "J 44". No clue what those stamps are for.
I just checked a couple here. I have a rear hand guard, for a heavy barrel No. 4 - probably L42? stamped "C. Moon & Co." in the wood - no metal liners on it. Also have a standard No. 4 rear hand guard with the letter "P" stamped into the wood, but no marks at all on the liner. I have a couple "nose caps" for a No. 4 fore-arm marked "F57" - also have very small "J 44". No clue what those stamps are for.
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