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An M1917 Enfield rifle was used by Sergeant Alvin C. York on October 8, 1918, during the event for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor, as the U.S. 82nd Division's (which York was a part of) official history states the division had been issued the M1917 (Eddystone), then replaced them with the No 1 Mk III Lee-Enfield while training with the ...
The Remington Model 30 is a US sporting rifle of the inter-war period based on the military P14/M1917 Enfield rifle action, which was manufactured for the British and US governments during World War I. [4] [5] Initial specimens used surplus military parts with some modifications in order to consume the stock of parts, though further modifications were made as production progressed and later ...
Here it produced the Pattern 1914 Enfield rifle and M1917 Enfield rifle. A large portion of the rifles used by American soldiers in France in World War I were made at Eddystone. [ 13 ] In January 1918 Remington Arms was absorbed by Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company , which took over the rifle plant.
It was a bolt-action weapon with an integral 5-round magazine. It served as a sniper rifle and as second-line and reserve issue, until declared obsolete in 1947. [citation needed] The Pattern 1914 Enfield was the successor to the Pattern 1913 Enfield experimental rifle and the predecessor of the U.S. Rifle M1917 Enfield.
M1917 Browning machine gun, a belt-fed water-cooled machine gun; M1917 Revolver, a .45 ACP revolver produced by Colt and Smith & Wesson; M1917 Enfield, an American bolt-action rifle; M1917 light tank, a light tank in US Army service, a near copy of the Renault FT; 75 mm gun M1917, a US-manufactured variant of the British QF 18-pounder artillery gun
The Eddystone Rifle Plant was built to manufacture these Pattern 1914 Enfield rifles. On 30 April 1915 the United Kingdom placed a contract with Remington Arms for 1,500,000 Pattern 1914 Enfield rifles. When Remington subcontracted the bulk of this order to Baldwin, Baldwin built a 14-acre (5.7 ha) rifle plant at Eddystone, the largest factory ...
The M1917 bayonet was designed to be used with the US M1917 Enfield.30 caliber rifle, as well as seven different models of U.S. trench shotguns. The blade was 17 in (43 cm) long with an overall length of 22 in (56 cm). [ 1 ]
M1917 Enfield rifle: Standard rifle: Front-line: Bolt-action United States: Winchester, Remington Arms, Eddystone Arsenal.30-06 Springfield: 549 1917 4.167 M1941 ...