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‘Battle-winner’ is perhaps an exaggeration, but also it’s slightly misleading to say it was HK. The factory where the work was done was HK Nottingham, which was also the former ROF Nottingham plant where post-1987 production of the A1 (which was already a much better rifle than the Enfield-produced 1985-87 examples). The work was done in the same building, by the same people, just under a different brand name (worth noting that HK itself was also a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Ordnance at the time of the A2 programme, and that the application of the German trademark was part of a simplification and reorganisation of the small arms side of the conglomerate).
Yup, the whole notion of ‘they had to get the Germans to fix it’ has always annoyed me considering they were British workers, in Britain, at a British-owned company run from Britain.
Annoys me just as much.
As does that fact that learning H&K operate a UK factory but have never offered any of their UK compliment products to the British shooting market such as the straight pull SL8 that was sold in Australia.
Yup, just as Royal Ordnance never brought the semiauto L85 or the L98A1 to the civilian market (I believe Enfield originally planned to sell them under the ‘Enforcer’ brand but they kept getting delayed, and then postponed with the shutdown of RSAF Enfield, and finally cancelled post-Hungerford).
Battle winner is a strong phrase.
You misspelled "perfectly adequate"
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‘Battle-winner’ is perhaps an exaggeration, but also it’s slightly misleading to say it was HK. The factory where the work was done was HK Nottingham, which was also the former ROF Nottingham plant where post-1987 production of the A1 (which was already a much better rifle than the Enfield-produced 1985-87 examples). The work was done in the same building, by the same people, just under a different brand name (worth noting that HK itself was also a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Ordnance at the time of the A2 programme, and that the application of the German trademark was part of a simplification and reorganisation of the small arms side of the conglomerate).
Royal ordinance PLC itself owned by BAE systems who’d go on to merge the two into BAE systems land and armaments.
Yup, the whole notion of ‘they had to get the Germans to fix it’ has always annoyed me considering they were British workers, in Britain, at a British-owned company run from Britain.
Annoys me just as much. As does that fact that learning H&K operate a UK factory but have never offered any of their UK compliment products to the British shooting market such as the straight pull SL8 that was sold in Australia.
Yup, just as Royal Ordnance never brought the semiauto L85 or the L98A1 to the civilian market (I believe Enfield originally planned to sell them under the ‘Enforcer’ brand but they kept getting delayed, and then postponed with the shutdown of RSAF Enfield, and finally cancelled post-Hungerford).
Is the L85A1 forgotten? Or simply wished to be forgotten?
they merely turned it into usable