Gil, my A&N pair, also by W&S, were only slightly fancier than that. What it comes down to, especially with vintage British pairs, is that there were people who were likely to be invited to the occasional driven shoot (which were almost entirely non-commercial back in the day) and who wanted to have a proper pair for those occasions. But they didn't necessarily do a lot of driven shooting and, while relatively well off financially, didn't have the disposable income to drop on a pair of best guns. And perhaps, if they were interested in impressing their fellow shooters with anything, maybe it was their ability with the guns in question rather than how much those guns cost.
