Comments by "51WCDodge" (@51WCDodge) on "British 1942 Prototype Simplified...Enfield?" video.

There were umpteen Lee Enfeilds still operational, all the tooling was in place, and for ammunition . The system had proved itself in all climates with soldiers from the highly skilled to raw recruits. It don't breack very often. It went , and contnues to go bang when you want it to, the round goes where you want it to, and if it don't it is simple enough to fix.
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Fine if you have the luxcury of time and money. If neither is avilable, it works we can build a lot cheaply, go for it. Funny you should mention the Spitfire, point in case, the original Spitfires had flush riviting, time consuming and skilled work. Split dried peas were stuck on every rivet of a test aircraft, then removed, one by one, until the best compromise between flush and headed rivets was found. All to save on production time and cost.
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@Litany_of_Fury 100% hindsight. Easy now. Though at the time anything that saved time and material was worth exploring. Though tool steel and skilled machine operators were in very short supply so I wonder about that milled reciver. There were also plans to mass drop cheap weapons, such as the STEN to resitance groups. What if the main manufacturing plants had been put out of action? Could a replacment be be batch produced from small enginnering works with simpler machinery?
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@mikecheeseman97 Favouritisn in the military could be looked at, quite correctly is Todays Friend is tommorows Enemy. The Japannese being an obvious one Allies in WW1, Enemy in WW2. So better to have as much control as possible over your defence. After all even now 'Friends' don't share everything.
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@babaganoush6106 I belive that Areldite, two part glue was one of the developments for Mosquito production. My Farther, who was a master carpenter always swore by (and sometimes at) Cascamite made from boiled bones.
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I canb se ethe comments from Traditional Gunsmiths- Good God! If we have to make guns like that, I'd rather we lost the war! Though there was the stratergy of producing cheap weapons to mass drop to resitance movments. That bolt look very P14 ish.
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@lordsummerisle87 There is a Pathe News reel of STEN manufactuer and test firing. ALL the shooters are holding the front of the gun by the barrel shroud.
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@jic1 The original Lee system, with black powder used a rifiling designed by Metford. When smokless came in the action was kept, but needed a new barrel and rifiling, designed at Royal Amouries Enfeild Lock. AKA Enfeild. , so designated Lee-Enfeild. Then the design was shortned and a magazine added so Short , Magazine, Lee, Enfeild.
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