sm03
10-20-2014, 11:00
The militarily marked New Zealand Rem. 1903's were stock stamped with an acceptance proof N, broad arrow and Z plus a number. If this is in fact a Government / Military acceptance proof where were they inspected and marked and by whom? Perhaps at the Remington Plant are did they ship to England with other Lend Lease weapons to be accepted there by a NZ representative or just accepted identified and stamped for New Zealand by the Britt's?
The NZ marked rifles I've seen are dated Nov. or Dec. of 1941. I doubt that we would have risked shipping to New Zealand at that point and the same with the English the U-boats had a strangle hold on them preventing them from shipping in or out. So did the NZ 1903's make it to New Zealand or spend the war in a British warehouse along with most of the Lend Lease Garand's and then imported back to the US commercially post war?
The NZ marked rifles I've seen are dated Nov. or Dec. of 1941. I doubt that we would have risked shipping to New Zealand at that point and the same with the English the U-boats had a strangle hold on them preventing them from shipping in or out. So did the NZ 1903's make it to New Zealand or spend the war in a British warehouse along with most of the Lend Lease Garand's and then imported back to the US commercially post war?