For BSA and Greener rifles view complete catalogues from 1908 to the mid 1930s on our. CATALOGUES PAGE. As far as civilian rifles are concerned, some manufacturers have their own dating systems, with, for example, prefixes or suffixes to serial numbers providing that information. During WW2 BSA made: 568,100.303 Browning machine guns; 1,250,000.303 Lee Enfield rifles; 60,000 7.92 'BESA' machine guns; 1945 Manufacture of 1st Cadet air rifle; 1946 Manufacture of Cadet Major air rifle; 1948 Manufacture of 1st Airsporter air rifle; 1949 Manufacture of 1st Gold Medal winning Martini International.22 target rifle.
Bsa Cadet Major Serial Numbers Diagram
A.177 BREAK-BARREL SPRING AIR-RIFLE SIGNED BSA, MODEL CADET MAJOR, serial no. CC04257, for 1955-57, with 18 1/2in. Sighted barrel, plain air chamber with traces of etched model details and beech half-stock £50-70: 4431. Established in 1948, F.A. Anderson is a traditionally run family gunsmiths based in the High Street, in the heart of East Grinstead, West Sussex. BSA used a system of letters and numbers for yearly identification of their machines. Before you proceed be sure to read the introduction page. INTRODUCTION to BSA Machine numbering system. 1912 to 1920 All models from 1912 - 1920: 1921 to 1930 All models from 1921 - 1930: 1931 to 1940 All models from 1931 - 1940: 1941.
There follows an abridged list of serial numbers of pre-WW1 BSA and Lincoln Jeffries rifles, based on the comprehensive list in John Knibb's book BSA and Lincoln Jeffries Air Rifles: A Concise Illustrated History of Their Development and Manufacture, 1904-18. Mr Knibbs drew up his list from entries in the original factory ledgers.
This list will be of assistance in narrowing down the age of your rifle. For a much more detailed record of your rifle's manufacture and despatch from the factory, please refer to the above book or, for the actual day the gun left the factory, contact John Knibbs International, but it will cost you UK£25 for the information.
Vintage BSAs 1919-1939
John Knibbs, who owns the BSA factory ledgers, didn't include a list of serial numbers for the post-1919 BSA air rifles in his book The Golden Century (copyright John Knibbs 2002).
The reason was that the serial numbers were not issued in chronological order, so the following information SHOULD BE TREATED WITH CAUTION!!!
Two sources of date identification have been published, apparently before the uncertainty mentioned above was understood, by Dennis Hiller in his book Air Rifles and by P J Colman in his articles in Guns Review. The Hiller ones take the format 'Model, Maker, Date'):
Light patterns 'L' and 'A'
Club ('CS' and 'C') and Standard .22 cal ('S' and 'T' patterns)
Breakdown pattern
BSA airgun prefix codes
Courtesy of John Knibbs International
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