John , I have been following both of the builds you have done very close.
Wow , very nice work indeed. Do English ordnance factories still build by the team concept ?
If so it could explain the discrepancies of the prints . During the 90’s I worked for my state as the artillery repair man and also on all of the small arms . I had a close relationship with the agency that procured the arms for our military. When our country started to buy the M119 105mm towed howitzer we has some major problems with repair part. Most of the parts came in the rough.. Not fully finished .this was because of the “Team” concept as it was explained to me a group the workers built one gun at a time . Say Fred cut the plates for the trail .but some were a lil off. The when Bill went to weld them together he made a few “adjustments “ to get them close then Harvey came along and had to make more “adjustments to get his parts to fit ..and so on and so forth till the gun was done ..so instead of having the parts made and held to close tolerances they hand fitted them to work .
The Rock island arsenal had to take over the contract to finish the guns to speck so the repair parts would fit all and any gun it was sent to…. This happened in the 1990’s . I really don’t think it was much different back in the teens.
