The No. 5 Bayonet was the bayonet used with the
No 5 Lee-Enfield which is nicknamed "Jungle carbine ". The bayonet was a blade which marked a return of the British Army to using blade type bayonets like the
Pattern 1907 bayonet instead of socket bayonets such as the
No. 4 Bayonet
The No. 4 Bayonet was the standard bayonet for all Lee Enfield No 4 rifles.
Development
Origins
The No. 4 Bayonet was created to replace the current bayonet at the time in service which was the World War I vintage Pattern 1907 bayonet. It ...
s used on the No. 4 Lee-Enfield.
Production
There were was only 1 variant of the No 5 bayonet produced which is the No 5 mk I bayonet.
During
World War II Wilkinson Sword in
London produced by far the most No 5 mk I bayonets with them producing close to 190,000 bayonets.
Other producers were a company called Radcliffe who made 75,000,
Viners
Viners is a United Kingdom brand of cutlery, kitchenware and dinnerware products, founded in 1901 in Sheffield, England by Adolphe Viener and his sons. By the 1960s, it had expanded to subsidiaries in Ireland, Australia and France. In mid-2000, ...
of
Sheffield who made 42,000 and
Elkington & Co who produced close to 10,000.
Post war manufacturing was done by the
Royal Ordnance Factory
Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) was the collective name of the UK government's munitions factories during and after the Second World War. Until privatisation, in 1987, they were the responsibility of the Ministry of Supply, and later the Ministr ...
in
Poole
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.
It is unknown how many they produced.
References
Bayonets
World War II infantry weapons of the United Kingdom
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