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Originally Posted by Mike Cecil
I suspect different places, different timber. Pine was not common in Australia before WW2, whereas the local native species were available and abundant. The stocks on .303 rifles made in Australia used, from memory, any of three different native species rather than Walnut.
Mike
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Lithgow-made .303s used a total of 9 species of timber, 1 was NZ Birch, the other 8 were Native Australian species; NO British or indeed any Northern Hemisphere timber species were used at Lithgow.
I wood think that any timber used in Australian-made 25Pdrs or vehicle bodies would also be exclusively native species.