Quote Originally Posted by webman View Post
Do you think that Webley could have had a number of "odds and ends" of steel bodies from several years, and used them up just prior to introducing the MK 2 aluminium-bodied model? I seem to have read that the only difference between the blued "E" and "F" was the new 12-groove rifled barrel, as fitted to the MK 2. This could explain why a lot of "F" model pistols have dates before some "E" models.
Not impossible at all. However Webleys experimented with several different coated finishes during the early/mid 1970s to save the expense of bluing and particularly polishing beforehand. They carried on making blued pistols alongside coated pistols and the former became the F Series according to Tom Cooper from notes I took after one of our conversations.

The Premier certainly makes for a fascinating study as there are so many different models.

Kind regards,

John