http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....-Batch-Numbers

I haven’t re-read the 11 page thread, but my recollection of it is that, with the possible exception of Premiers, batch numbers mean absolutely nothing except that someone stamped a number on a gun.

I’ve commented on other threads about some of the Webley rifle “serial numbers” that appear to be more numbers than a series.

Makes you wonder why they bothered. What utility was served by “batch numbers”? Was it perhaps that some jurisdictions require a serial number, so numbers get stamped on guns to make them legal for sale (I somewhere have a rubbish Chinese rifle that has a “serial” number stamped on the stock - I am confident it is not part of a series but simply a random collection of numbers to meet a legal requirement)?