Milbro / Diana production records.

[ogilkes]

Milbro, or at least the pellet company, used to be

Unit 4G
Carfin Industrial Estate
Carfin
Motherwell
Lanarkshire
ML1 4UL

Which I am assuming was close to the original location of the factory which was also on this industrial estate. Not much left now, its mostly a housing estate https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl&authuser=0

I have always wondered about the 55 too. I did wonder whether Milbro simply took a design for an underlever that Diana never managed to produce pre-war and made it, possuibly even using up parts that were manufactured, hence the short production run. Or were they simply trying to 'be' Diana in the UK? Whatever it was there only real attempt at innovation. I rather like the post 1964 guns, nice stocks and generally quite nice to shoot though. Interesintg read here:

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...nv00011582.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...wApril1995.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...v000115811.jpg

By all accounts there was a great deal of muttering in German circles about the loss of their trade mark in the uK, hence the buying back of it asap when Milbro wnet bankrupt.

Anyway, Milbros reputaiton as cheapies has meant that few seem to survive in decent condiiton. Most you see for sale are increadibly battered, the result, I suspect of teenagers using them to destruciton in the back garden and then abandoning them in the shed.