Cool! thanks for all the info much appreciated!
I'm in Nova Scotia and the rifle is in Ontario but someday I'll get him to have a closer look at the action for a manufacturer's mark if present.
Nice history lesson came out of this rifle thanks again.
I just thought it was a British rifle built using British built parts but the war effort saw a British designed action manufactured by the United States using three different US manufactures then some of the actions shipped back across the ocean to Britain sitting for awhile in the thousands as surplus, reassembled into a sporter by/under Interarms labeled Whitworth and end up back across the ocean once again to take two moose in Northern Ontario then sitting pretty on my father-in-laws couch in Waterloo Ontario Canada
thanks again for everyone's input
regards keith

Last edited by thornett; 11/29/19.