Stamps on the Barrel Flats
Looking at another picture of # 175048 on that same page of The Gun Report (August, 1976) - I see these numbers: 43112 and 43113 on the barrel flats.
Are these numbers assigned by the manufacturer, Whitworth?
And if so, I guess the number sequences were somewhere on the tubes themselves. Then stamped here again on the plate of the barrel flats when the two tubes were matched up and assembled together.
I see Whitworth referred to only once in TPS (at page 508).
Have not yet found a picture of the barrel flats on another example of Whitworth steel barrels.
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