![]() A simple one-piece charger bridge to accept five-round stripper clips was fitted into grooves on the top of the receiver, as opposed to the No. 4’s receiver was strengthened and squared off requiring less milling and simplifying manufacture. While being similar in appearance and features, very few parts were completely interchangeable between the No. 1 rifle), but changes were made to the receiver, bolt, stock, sights, barrel, nose cap and bayonet. 303 British cartridge as the SMLE, retained the better features of the SMLE (in 1926 the SMLE was renamed the No. 4 Mark I rifle was adopted on November 15, 1939. Thanks to inter-war development, an improved and simplified design was waiting in the wings, and the No. With Hitler’s war machine on the move, the British needed an accurate, mass-production rifle. The Short, Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE) delivered sterling service from the mud of Flanders to the farthest reaches of the Empire. In 1939, the British soldier was still armed with the same rifle his father, or perhaps even his grandfather, carried. ![]()
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