I know I have brought this up before, and was soundly corrected on the date of the first introduction of the Original Diana 45 break barrel air rifle, which I think was in 1978, BUT now I want to know when it was introduced into the UK.

It's just my perception of it was it was introduced into the UK some time in 1980 or 1981. While it was being made and presumably sold elsewhere, it was not being sold in the UK.

Or was it?

My memory says that only the 35 and 50 were being sold in any numbers before 1980, and that the 45 was not imported until after then. Or was it too expensive, or ignored or not detuned enough for the Home Office? Why wasn't it wiping the floor with the FWB Sport and the HW35 and the early Vulcan?

If it WAS sold from 1978, then why were there so few references to it in AGW?