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Old 4th August 2025, 07:14 PM   #30
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Hey Jim. Mole and Co. Birmingham worked alongside WS supplying the British government and governing entities in all manifestations, (East India Co. for example).
They were the only manufacturers capable of achieving the numbers needed, so there was actually no competition; in fact in 1884 Mole agreed to loan John Latham of WS three of his experts to help with a special project (I wonder what?). Two of those experts were Johnson brothers who were descended from Johnsons indentured to Mohll at the start of the SB project in 1687, being sons of a local landowner leasing land to the Germans. If ever there was any doubt about the succession of the Moles from SB to Birmingham this clinches it.
OK, to my point: despite Moles producing tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of blades, I have been unable to find and buy a single bayonet, despite searching in my thorough fashion for months now. Where are they all?
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