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The "Experimental Machine Carbine, 1949" (EMC). Chambered in the same 9 mm Parabellum cartridge as the Sten with a side-mounted 32-round box magazine, shared by the Sten and later the Sterling. The EMC used blowback action but cycled, faster than the Sterling and all of the earlier Sten variants, at 600 rounds per minute.
Towards the end of the Second World War, some of these trial samples are rumoured to have been used in combat by airborne troops during the battle of Arnhem [22] and by special forces at other locations in Northern Europe [23] where it was officially known as the Patchett Machine Carbine Mk 1. [24] For example, a Patchett submachine gun (serial ...
Patchett's contacts with the Villiers company enabled a new Jawa 175 Villiers to be designed around the Villiers 175cc two-stroke engine which proved very popular. [1] 9mm Sterling machine-gun Mark IV. Patchett was an amateur photographer and took photos and videos of the Nazi Occupation of Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939. [2]
L44A1 7.62mm Machine Gun (Royal Navy L7 variant fitted with L1A1 Safety Unit and No. 1 Mk 1 Electrical Firing Unit, normally pintle-mounted or set in remote gun pods) [24] L45 L45A1 7.62mm Drill Machine Gun (Drill purpose version of L7) L46 L46A1 7.62mm Drill Machine Gun (Drill purpose version of L7) L47 L47A1 7.65mm Automatic Pistol [109] [173]
Browning M2 – heavy machine gun, mounted on many lend-lease vehicles. Besa machine gun – in 7.92mm BESA and 15mm BESA forms used as armament on British-built tanks and armoured cars only. Vickers-Berthier – light machine gun adopted by British Indian Army before the war, and used until replaced by Bren guns around 1942.
During World War II, engineers George Lanchester and George William Patchett oversaw the manufacture of the Lanchester submachine gun. Patchett afterwards went on to design the Patchett machine carbine which, after a competitive trial in 1947, was adopted by the British Army in 1953 as the L2A1 Sterling submachine gun, replacing the Sten gun ...
The Lanchester is a submachine gun ("machine carbine") manufactured by the Sterling Armaments Company between 1941 and 1945. It is an evolution from MP28/II and was manufactured in two versions, Mk.1 and Mk.1*; the latter was a simplified version of the original Mk.1, with no fire selector and simplified sights.
The serial number of this pistol is located under the dust cover on the frame, on the barrel, and on the slide. The bolt of an Arisaka military rifle, which carries identifiers matching the main serial number which is on the receiver. A gun serial number is a unique identifier assigned to a singular firearm. [A]