webley mk3

[sarpaul]

can anyone help with the manufacture date of my webley mk3? serial number A6706 can seem to find much on web for webley dating. thanks.

[Troubledshooter]

Either 5/10/68 for both calibres or possibly 4/9/71 if it's .22 calibre, as Webley used some 'A' prefixed numbers twice.
Information from Chris Thrale's book 'Webley Air Rifles - 1925-2005

[sarpaul]

yes .22

[abellringer]

Being confirmed as .22 cal I agree the gun was made W/E 4/9/71 as per Chris's book, however I can go a little further, the gun was made in block 7 of 12 [blocks of ten used as std production units]. The gun was made by Joe the leading hand [look for a small letter J inside the forks] Thursday 2/9/71.
The other gun No. A6706 was .177 made by Graham block 6 of 10 W/E 5/10/68, date would have been Wednesday 2/9/68.
The reason I can go deeper than Chris in some instances is that He used a condensed version of the bench workers ''day book'' which I owned for many years and is now in the Birmingham Proof House Museum.
Hope it helps a little.
abellringer

[sarpaul]

wow, thats great, i couldnt even find any references for webley manufacture dates anywhere! thats really interesting, thanks for your time.

[gingernut]

Before or after lunch?



I'm joking.
How nice to have that info on your gun.