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that pile is likely the bulk of the trial rifles....

Surprising to see them stacked like cordwood. Some of them look very dusty, and there likely weren't many women working in armouries between the wars, so probably 1940-41. When everything that could shoot was being dragged out to make up for the Dunkirk debacle and the huge quantities of kit left in France.

The smart thing would have been to issue those rifles with aperture sights to the infantrymen who got their First Class Shot badges.
 
Clearly No. 1 MK V rifles, rear sight on receiver and extra front band with SMLE style nosecap.
 
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The Girls of Long Branch (from the February 1945 issue of Playboy...

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Bottom photo is Mrs. Norma Sieffert , her husband, a RCAF navigator has been reported missing, her only brother is in the Navy , serving at sea

Some 3000 women were employed at the Long Branch small arms factory
 
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Those are No. 4's. A long way in time and space from Dunkirk. That picture must be from the Longbranch factory.

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Cruciform bayonet on the first one. [photo referenced no longer appears]

Second pic the bayonet looks longer than usual and perhaps from the bends that was an idea that didn't work out.
 
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Cruciform bayonet on the first one.

Second pic the bayonet looks longer than usual and perhaps from the bends that was an idea that didn't work out.

Looks to my eye that the bayonet bends would run foul of the axis of the bore ??
 
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