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Roy
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B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!
21/09/15 04:05 AM

Greetings Chaps,

After the warm reception which I am most appreciative of, I thought I would share a special rifle with you. I'm afraid I'm not too keen on the whole photo hosting thing, so instead just created a private page on my own website to share with you all and will add a link below.

The Rifle..? Well this is a B.S.A. Lee-Speed (not marked as such) pattern of rifle - a No4 in .303. This one is especially interesting as it was one of only 970 rifles that were purchased by the Admiralty in March of 1915 for use on small craft. Apparently due to a shortage of arms at the outbreak of WWI many rifles were removed from RN ships and re-distributed (presumably to the Army). As an interim measure the Admiralty embarked on purchasing all manner of rifles to fill the gap. This included amongst others 970 commercial pattern BSA/LSA rifles. This fine example is one of those and carries the Broad Arrow and 'N' (for Navy) inspection mark.

Link: http://wilkinsonfscollection.com/wilkinsonfscollection.com/BSA_Lee_Speed.html

I'm yet to shoot this example but plan to soon.

Hope you enjoy, Cheers, Roy.

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My Website: www.wilkinsonfscollection.com

http://wilkinsonfscollection.com/wilkinsonfscollection.com/The_Lee-Speed_Rifle.html

Edited by Roy (21/09/15 06:04 AM)

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B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	21/09/15 04:05 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Iowa_303s	21/09/15 07:43 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	21/09/15 07:57 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Iowa_303s	21/09/15 11:41 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Viking338	21/09/15 04:09 PM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	22/09/15 01:15 PM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Iowa_303s	22/09/15 02:10 PM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	23/09/15 05:18 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	TH44	23/09/15 08:26 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	23/09/15 08:59 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	23/09/15 09:00 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	TH44	24/09/15 08:49 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	24/09/15 11:37 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	25/09/15 05:47 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	AlanD	15/11/15 02:49 PM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	16/11/15 02:54 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Sarg	16/11/15 06:28 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	16/11/15 07:22 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Bidgee	16/11/15 08:55 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	16/11/15 11:15 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Bidgee	16/11/15 04:23 PM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Old_Glass	16/11/15 11:36 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Bidgee	16/11/15 12:05 PM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	16/11/15 12:14 PM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Rule303	16/11/15 06:39 PM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	17/11/15 02:11 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	17/11/15 02:35 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Sarg	17/11/15 06:08 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	17/11/15 06:16 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Roy	28/11/15 06:01 AM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	DarylS	16/11/15 12:20 PM
Re: B.S.A. Commercial Royal Navy Purchase Rifle..!	Iowa_303s	23/09/15 08:44 AM

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