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27-02-12, 00:31
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Vive la difference....
On the "holy ****" handle differences.
I suspect that such a non critrical part may have been produced in numerous small shops.... maybe different contracts....all from the same specs....... but all slightly different in the jig they used to bend the handles. Steel barrels full of small stuff was then collected and sent to assembly areas...... those were the last days of the once flourishing "cottage industry" ........ When I was a kid growing up in downtown Hull almost every small steel fabricating shop ....... wrought iron fences and veranda railing was trendy back then........ had bunches of old 45 gallon drum filled with left over production parts all the same that they had made and never got delivered....some had small weird brackets, rings, corner brackets, etc...... May explain why the factory pictures of the CMP battery box shows regular nuts for fasteners on the top cover but later in service battery boxes have a variety of fastener of at least 2 or 3 different design. My grandmother did contract sewing at home....... she would get huge rolls of single, double and triple braids to make Lance Corporal, Corporal and Sergeants stripes sewn to a felt backing. Some old gents delivered the raw material and at the same time pick up the finished products..... she did them in army green and airforce blue........ and was paid cash and probably at a very low rate. Such was the war effort. Bob
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Bob Carriere....B.T.B C15a Cab 11 Hammond, Ontario Canada 
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