I consider the Savage imported guns, O/U double shotguns and combination guns "all Savage." Savage just realized that they could find guns that had all the Savage virtues (value, reliability, interesting innovations) made by another manufacturer of equal repute, and commissioned them. I wouldn't kick my Canadian-made Savage Model 93 "Classic" .22 WRM out of the safe, either, for the same reasons.
In the same way that the Brits found Savage an ideal manufacturer for one of their needed weapons that they didn't have the capacity to produce in sufficient quantity, so they commissioned the SMLE's from Savage.
About the only Savage cited in this I don't much like is the 101. However, it HAS all the Savage virtues I mentioned above.
