"Lend Lease" M1s?

[RCS]

My SA 63282 also has a flat cover without the code

My 88k with SA 11-40 barrel has the X code flat cover

My 80K has the B code flat cover

I have a data sheet on 219876 with SA 7-41 bbl and indented cover coded, and SA 167583 has a J coded cover indented

Charles Redfield has told me that SA started to code the flat covers.

After SA started using the indent cover, Winchester production in 1941 started with the flat cover that was
DuLite and without a code, only lasted a few months

[AlanD]

What are the date of manufacture for some of the earliest British proofed 'Lend Lease' rifles please?

The reason that I ask is that I believe 30,000 Garand rifles were supplied under the Cash & Carry Act and are different to the 38,001 recorded as being supplied under Lend Lease to Britain and the Empire excluding Canada. On my last visit to the National Archives in London I managed to find information on the distribution of these rifles within the UK. I had been aware previously for many yeas of the order for 30,000 rifles. Although the Lend Lease Act was passed in March 1941 most orders that had been place by Britain in the USA under Cash & Carry were still supplied on that basis and were not transphered to Lend Lease.

Regards

AlanD
Sydney

[RCS]

early rifles

I have a data sheet on Springfield M1 serial number 7860 which had been converted to the new front end (gas port barrel). This
rifle has a mix of parts. Interesting that the barrel is dated S-A 8-40 and has the London proofs behind the date near the receiver.
This data sheet came from the GCA

I have another rifle, also SA in the 50K serial range and also with a S-A 8-40 barrel with London proofs behind the date near the
receiver (photo)P1010023_1_0019_019.jpg

[Rick the Librarian]

The red bands and caliber marking were crudely done and nothing more than a warning of caliber, and I would suspect a drop of paint just happened during painting.

Here are two Remington 1903 L-L rifles.

These were not Lend Lease rifles. The Brits paid for the development cost of resuming M1903 production and were "paid" in M1903s - about 66,000 of the Remingtons.

[Johnny P]

The photo was to show as an example of the red band painted for caliber identification.