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Shamu 
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 Topic: australian makers markings Pt 1 & 2.Posted: June 11 2024 at 1:16pm |
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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paddyofurniture
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Posted: June 11 2024 at 1:28pm |
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Thanks!
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Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.
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Posted: June 12 2024 at 2:44am |
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Thanks Shamu. I 've got two Lithgows, I'm going to check them over for the various stampings to learn a little more about them.
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Posted: June 12 2024 at 2:48pm |
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Thanks for the lists, very useful !
Also a good example of how during the war the Australians ran their small arms & ammunition manufacturing in a decentralized way utilizing a large number of subcontracted factories.
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Posted: June 12 2024 at 3:43pm |
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Shamu , the list is awesome mate .i will say i have been to every single town on the list over the years . There is a lot of towns on the list that are part of the rail network to move stuff around . There is temporary in NSW which had a large pilot training facility now has a large museum look up warbirdsdownunderairshow.com.au
They always do ANZAC day fly overs this year was a ca13 boomerang and the year before was a spitfire
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Shamu
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Posted: June 13 2024 at 3:40pm |
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Fair use, this isn't My list.  I'm just posting it for the O.P.
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Posted: June 19 2024 at 9:22am |
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Thank you for the lists. I’ll add these to my Enfield file.
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Posted: June 19 2024 at 5:03pm |
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Those lists would be a good 'sticky' for future reference?
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Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually
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Shamu
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Posted: June 20 2024 at 3:41pm |
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smerdon42 I thought I'd posted this here, but don't see it, maybe its somewhere else or I messed up somehow. Its amazing how many manufacturers there were doing sub contract work. When I was doing some heavy duty caving in South Wales we had a cottage Halt Rd, in the village of Penderyn, the local "town" was Hirwaun, just down the road. Neither were "big" & both were in a very rural area on the edge of the Brecon Beacons. Then one day, SURPRISE! I discover there was an ammunition manufacturing plant for .303 British there during the war! "Royal Ordnance Factory, Hirwaun, South Wales, UK. This factory was set
up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. It was involved
in the production of .303 cartridges in only a very limited way and is
known to have manufactured Tracer G Mk 2 (in cases dated 1943 and 1944)." I've never seen one, but have kept looking for a .303 round with the "HN" headstamp!
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Posted: June 20 2024 at 5:11pm |
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I have one (will go take a picture later). I also have a box of 9mm made there too. H^N marked 303 is pretty scarce. During the war, the UK had manufacturing plants all over the country. Early on, they had three factories that simply used one, two or three broad arrows (^) on their ammunition, to prevent the Germans discovering the factory locations. These were Radway Green (later change from ^ to RG), Spennymore (later changed form ^^ to SR) and Steeton (later changed from ^^^ to ST). However, the latter didn't produce .303.
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.303 - Helping Englishmen express their feelings since 1889
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Posted: June 22 2024 at 2:02pm |
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Oohh! Jealous, I am!
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Posted: September 07 2024 at 10:51pm |
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hi all, chasing any info i can on this, i have just inherited this rifle and would love to know any and all info regarding it please.        |
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Posted: September 08 2024 at 8:09pm |
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nice looking rifle with great markings , im saying it served in military district 4 [dont recall which that is]
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Posted: September 09 2024 at 5:19am |
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4 md is south Australia lots of New Guinea servicemen from there
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My great uncle served in africa and new guinea, enlisted in 1940 in maryborough QLD, but this rifle isnt from that side of the family, i dont believe ths rifle has any family history connected to it, but would be great to know its history none the less
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