I guess you have never thought of publishing all this information? It would be a fascinating addition to Chris' book. Hope this helps a little and it does confirm what has been said by other members.Hi. Hope this helps a little and it does confirm what has been said by other members. I don't have the knowledge to say when this very distinctive stock finish was used on the MKIII. Sadly both guns would have been to the same specification, so we can't be any more specific there was a short spell when Webley put a black grain filler in the stocks, then used a polyurethane based high gloss varnish on them this also appeared on Hawk II Falcon Osprey, so this appeared over several time spans. Other section workers are listed, and the letter ''D'' sometimes appears for David. The section also had a ''Jim'', but I don't know if he ever marked the guns or not or if the ''J'' in the book refers to him specifically.

Joe was the bench chargehand and usually put a tiny letter J inside the forks as an extra I/D mark. The earlier one is listed as having an extra I/D of 'J' as the production worker the second one is listed as ''Joe''.

The second option is week ending 8/4/72 this time the gun was in block 3 of 7. I have to agree Webley made things pretty much impossible in many cases to work out the date of MKIII's they did indeed use the prefix 'A' on two consecutive runs of this model, the workers said it was because they were too mean to buy another punch, but we'll never know.Īnyway as has been said first option is week ending 12/4/69 the gun was in block 6 of 10 blocks made that week, using ''piecework'' payment rates. Hi, I've done a check on my MKIII day book. To be honest I was just going to give it a clean and advertise it but the old thing has tugged at the heart strings and I quite like it. I'll do some photos of the whole thing at some point.

It still has the little white disc in the side with WEBLEY in all capitals, and it is also definitely got the varnish/gloss finish. I'm taking it to my local gunsmith tomorrow who is very good, to see if it's repair worthy.

The stock is the worst part about this particular rifle, lots of dings and scratches (nothing too deep) along with a small crack to the right side, near where the rear of the action sits. The last series stocks were I believe mid-brown gloss varnished and the loading taps were flat plain rectangular sintered pieces.īrianThanks Brian. 22 calibre and would both have had the parallel sided scope mounting plate. As far as I'm aware, both series were all made in. Nobody seems to know why Webley decided to use the 'A' prefix for both these production series, but it certainly make things more difficult when trying to accurately date the these 'A' pre-fixed rifles.

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