Royal Small Arms Factory
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The Royal Small Arms Factory, also known by the metonym Enfield, was a UK government-owned rifle factory in Enfield, adjoining the Lee Navigation in the Lea Valley. Some parts were in Waltham Abbey. T
The RSAF machine shop overlooking basin, November 2007
US Marine firing the L1A1 rifle
The RSAF Interpretation centre
Lee–Enfield
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The Lee–Enfield is a bolt-action, magazine-fed repeating rifle that served as the main firearm of the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th century,
Royal Small Arms Factory
…in 1988, but some of its work was transferred to other sites. The factory designed and manufactured many famous British Army weapons including the Lee–Enfield rifles which were standard equipment during both World Wars. The RSAF had its origins in a short-lived Royal Manufactory of Small Arms established in…
A 1903 Short Magazine Lee–Enfield Mk I in the Swedish Army Museum
Standard Mk VII .303-inch cartridge for Lee–Enfield rifle
A Magazine Lee Enfield Mk I* rifle ("Long Tom"), used in the Second Boer War by the New Zealand Mounted Rifles
Short Magazine Lee–Enfield No. 1 Mk III