Lithgow Small Arms Museum - Australia
- Thread starter Bojangles
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Forty4Forty
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- Location
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia -a few hours away from Sydney. I have done the pilgrimage a few years back great place.
I think that most of the rifles were still operational. Some of the machine gun were dewat.
The rifles that had the steel cables were "prize" pieces and much more valuable than others. They would likely be the first stolen. Additionally it keeps "Bubba" from removing them to have a closer look.
Thanks to a digital camera, I was able to take a couple hundred photographs.
In addition to seeing the museum, I attended the Penrith gun show and spent some time talking with Ian Skennerton who has writen numerous books on Lee Enfield and Commonwealth Militaria.
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John- I think not....I've owned perhaps five in the good ol' days, and all were same as the one shown- the giveaway? The slot for the sling. It was a composite leather/web sling that went through the slot in the butt at the rear,and had a leather loop that went around the water jacket at the front.
John- I think not....I've owned perhaps five in the good ol' days, and all were same as the one shown- the giveaway? The slot for the sling. It was a composite leather/web sling that went through the slot in the butt at the rear,and had a leather loop that went around the water jacket at the front.
- Location
- Pile of Bones, SK
I've got to check that out some day. Thanks for sharing.
I wish there was a Long Branch museum like this.
I wish there was a Long Branch museum like this.
GREAT pictures!
I quite agree with Vimy Ridge (above) but such will never be. Canadian Governments have NO appreciation of real Canadian history and would like to think of us all still as singing folksongs as we paddle our canoes filled with Good Things for the great lords in Ottawa. Canadians don't need guns, you know, which is why we are taking them away from law-abiding Canadians and, at the same time, offering our support for the idea that the Tamil Tigers are a community-service group.
I don't think there has EVER been a Government so completely out-of-touch with ordinary people as what we have had in the last 40 years. Harper is doing his best, but you can only do so much when you are legally a minority. Give Harper a clear majority in the next election and then we'll see if things improve. If they don't we can always secede and join up with a free country..... South Korea perhaps, Switzerland by choice.
Now THERE's an idea: extrateritoriality for US. Everybody ELSE can come here and bring their own traditions, so why can't WE? I'm basically Scots in ancestry; I should be able to walk down the street with a carbine, a pair of pistols, a broadsword, a cleidhmarr and a sgean dubh. Or aren't we all equal?
I quite agree with Vimy Ridge (above) but such will never be. Canadian Governments have NO appreciation of real Canadian history and would like to think of us all still as singing folksongs as we paddle our canoes filled with Good Things for the great lords in Ottawa. Canadians don't need guns, you know, which is why we are taking them away from law-abiding Canadians and, at the same time, offering our support for the idea that the Tamil Tigers are a community-service group.
I don't think there has EVER been a Government so completely out-of-touch with ordinary people as what we have had in the last 40 years. Harper is doing his best, but you can only do so much when you are legally a minority. Give Harper a clear majority in the next election and then we'll see if things improve. If they don't we can always secede and join up with a free country..... South Korea perhaps, Switzerland by choice.
Now THERE's an idea: extrateritoriality for US. Everybody ELSE can come here and bring their own traditions, so why can't WE? I'm basically Scots in ancestry; I should be able to walk down the street with a carbine, a pair of pistols, a broadsword, a cleidhmarr and a sgean dubh. Or aren't we all equal?
Kinda surprising that for all the years the place has been in operation not a single individual has come forward with a "donation" of a '37 (in exchange for a large-ish tax credit and lifetime, unrestricted access to the place of course).
