How many lee enfields were made

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We have noticed that there is an issue with your subscription billing details. Please update your billing details here. The Bolt-Action "Long Lees" The "Lee" in Lee-Enfield is James Paris Lee , a Scottish-born American arms inventor who designed, among other things, the box magazine that allowed for the development of bolt-action repeating rifles. Another important name is that of William Ellis Metford , an English civil engineer who was instrumental in perfecting the.

The first British bolt-action magazine rifle was developed through trials beginning in , with adoption of the Magazine Rifle Mark I in December It has an overall length of In November , changes in the rifling and the sights were made to accommodate smokeless powder cartridges, and the new rifle was designated the Lee-Enfield Magazine Rifle Mark I , or in common parlance, the "Magazine Lee-Enfield" MLE.

In , a carbine version of the Lee-Metford was approved, having an overall length of With an overall length of In , the No. The Mk VI eventually became the No. In , the British government changed the nomenclature of its rifles, redesignating the.

While it is true that the British government adopted the No. In addition, the Ishapore factory in India manufactured more than , No. All of the No. Production of No. In the mids, Ishapore developed a version of the No. The Pattern No. Field experience with Mauser and Springfield rifles had indicated the desireability of a one-piece stock, a receiver-mounted aperture rear sight, and forward-mounted bolt locking lugs.

Also under consideration was a rimless cartridge with a smaller caliber, higher velocity bullet. Over the next two years, various prototypes were examined and trials were conducted, leading to extended field trials in of over new rifles. In October , the. A contract was let to Vickers, Ltd. Production began in January Winchester manufactured the P at its New Haven, Connecticut plant.

In December , a new bolt with a longer locking lug was approved. By April , the manufacture of 1. An additional , had been sent to India.

With the U. The rifle became the U. Rifle, Caliber. By the fall of , the need for a British sniper rifle was apparent. A new backsight was developed which had a micrometer adjustment for elevation. In November this backsight was approved for installation on Winchester-made P rifles, the Winchesters having proven more dependable and more accurate than the others.

Again, only Winchester-made Ps were fitted with scopes. Nearly , P rifles and over a million M rifles were put storage.