JMB1943 Posted 20 July , 2017 Share Posted 20 July , 2017 (edited) According to the Good Book by Skennerton, the last delivery of P.1907 bayonets by Wilkinson occurred in the w/e March 15, 1919. They were turning out 17,000 per week by mid-1917, so maybe production was dropped to 1,000-10,000 per week after the Armistice. Possibly 8,000-80,000 were produced from Jan 1 to Mar 15, 1919. Despite having seen photos of hundreds of P'07's for sale, I have yet to come across one dated for 1919. A few for 11 '18 and even a couple of 12 '18, but nothing dated later. I can well understand that any '19 dated bayonets would have gone straight into stores, rather than being issued, as the armed forces fell back to peace-time establishments. Were they all scrubbed for sale to non-english speaking nations (Egypt, Iraq, etc) ? Finally, has anybody ever seen one ? Regards, JMB edit: I know that BSA scrubbed 10,000 'ex-service models' (Skennerton) P.'07's for sale to Siam. Edited 20 July , 2017 by JMB1943 add info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4thGordons Posted 20 July , 2017 Share Posted 20 July , 2017 I assume you are just interested in Wilkinson? I believe I have a 1919 dated Lithgow somewhere. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMB1943 Posted 20 July , 2017 Author Share Posted 20 July , 2017 Hello Chris, Yes, just the WILKS. Regards, JMB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reese williams Posted 21 July , 2017 Share Posted 21 July , 2017 My guess would be that the contracts were all cancelled on or around 11 Nov.1918 or very soon thereafter. I doubt there was much if any 1919 production. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMB1943 Posted 23 July , 2017 Author Share Posted 23 July , 2017 On 7/21/2017 at 19:34, reese williams said: My guess would be that the contracts were all cancelled on or around 11 Nov.1918 or very soon thereafter. I doubt there was much if any 1919 production. Wilkinson musthave been making bayonets for all of the 15 weeks between the Armistice & March of 1919, why otherwise the last delivery in March. Suppose that they only made 8,000 in 1919; that is of the same order as the 10,000 made by Vickers and the 10,000 reworked by BSA for Siam. Examples of both of these appear regularly for sale. A possibility is that WILK did stop production in 1918, but did not ship them out until 1919, ending in March. I don't like this explanation because I assume that payment would be on delivery. Regards, JMB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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