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I was watching Ian Mcollum video on the no1mk5 trials rifle,he mentions the mk3's that were converted but says they made a "couple"of them.Do you think its possible they only made two of these rifles?
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10-22-2024 11:43 PM
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In looking through Skennertons three books (The British
Service Lee, The Lee Enfield Story, and The Lee Enfield), the typical batch size for any trials patterns was approximately 1,000 for troop testing. However, some batches were as few as 50 and as high as 2500.
Your rifle is certainly rare, but I think it a safe bet more than a two were made (but not many). In reading this section, page 187 of Skennertons last book, he makes mention of some Mk III rifles being converted to Mk V pattern. No number is given, citing the process as cost prohibitive.
This is by no means a definitive answer, nor is it even a ballpark guess. I have seen one in a friends collection, yours on this forum, Peter mentions a couple at Warminster, and Terry Hawker owns one. Counting the one in Skennertons works, that makes approximately 6(?).
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Warren
Just like you never pay to much, you just buy too soon.
Warren,
Having never doubted the wisdom of that old collector's adage, I was overjoyed to discover that I had lived long enough to see the value of a certain rather scarce Australian revolver finally reach what I had paid for it.
Just never expected it to take 30 years!
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Good thing inflation is as low as it is. 
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Originally Posted by
smle addict
In looking through Skennertons three books (The
British Service Lee, The Lee Enfield Story, and The Lee Enfield), the typical batch size for any trials patterns was approximately 1,000 for troop testing. However, some batches were as few as 50 and as high as 2500.
Your rifle is certainly rare, but I think it a safe bet more than a two were made (but not many). In reading this section, page 187 of Skennertons last book, he makes mention of some Mk III rifles being converted to Mk V pattern. No number is given, citing the process as cost prohibitive.
This is by no means a definitive answer, nor is it even a ballpark guess. I have seen one in a friends collection, yours on this forum, Peter mentions a couple at Warminster, and Terry Hawker owns one. Counting the one in Skennertons works, that makes approximately 6(?).
According to some research from a person at the museum at Leeds,they made 20 of these.
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