Eddystone Model 1917 rifle features a barrel marked "E/flaming bomb/8-18", standard blade front and adjustable ladder and peep rear sights, and standard markings on the receiver ring. Eddystone produced almost 2,000,000 rifles for the war effort, but only one serial number 1,000,000. The completion of this rifle was celebrated by a mass company meeting on September 12, 1918, attended by more than 14,000 plant employees, and a number of army, navy, and industry officials. This is still regarded as perhaps the greatest achievement in U.S. The first contract for the 1917 was singed on Jwith production commencing in September with the 1,000,000th rifle being produced only a year later. demand for rifles and the production tooling was changed to make the rifles compatible with the standard. 303 Pattern 14 rifle were superseded by the new U.S. When the United States entered the war, existing British contracts for the. Model 1917 began as a rifle produced for the British in the early days of WWI as the Pattern 14 Enfield.
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