Long Branch-made MkII with the Skeleton rather than the simpler T-bar stock seen in image #1. The pictured STEN (see images #1 & #2) is a Canadian These were the No.7 MkI sword bayonet and the No.4 MkII spike bayonet. The modifications were carried out by Mauser (designed by Vorgrimler). As the weaknesses of the English Walls were known, some improvements and adjustments were made. Attention was also paid to this simple construction. At the end of 1944, there was an acute need for simple small arms for the newly founding units of Volkssturm. The only other STEN to have a bayonet was the MkV which used the same bayonets as the Lee-Enfield Rifle No.4. I was called MPi 748 (e) and Sten Mk II was called MPi 749 (e). Consisting of several pieces of welded steel it was fixed to the STEN by a spring clip with a detent at the end which indexed with one of the holes in the STEN’s barrel nut/shroud. The MkI Spike bayonet was as cheaply made as the gun it was made for. The STEN was far from an ideal bayonet fighting weapon. The vast majority of these were scrapped when it became obvious they were unnecessary and all but useless in combat.
Three companies made some 75,800 MkI STEN gun bayonets, these companies were: Grundy Ltd of Toddington, Lines Brothers of Merton and N.J. The British Army has a long held penchant for the bayonet and the MkII STEN was the first British Machine Carbine to fit one. Pictured above is an excellent contemporary photograph, dated August 1942, of a British officer armed with a MkII STEN equipped with a MkI spike bayonet.
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