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Sten is an acronym, derived from the names of the weapon's chief designers: Major Reginald V. Shepherd and Harold J. Turpin, and "En" for the Enfield factory. [12] [b] Around four million Stens in various versions were made in the 1940s, making it the second most produced submachine gun of the Second World War, after the Soviet PPSh-41.
Bren (Brno + Enfield), .303 Light machine gun from 1935 onwards. Sten (Shepherd, Turpin + Enfield) 9mm Sub-machine gun from 1941 to 1953; Polsten low cost version of 20 mm Oerlikon (acknowledging two Polish designers + Sten (= Shepherd, Turpin + Enfield)), from 1944. Taden gun: .280 calibre experimental machine gun, 1951.
Major Reginald Shepherd and Harold Turpin is the names of the designers. The general presumption that EN as in Royal Small Arms Factory In En field Were the producers is incorrect. There was 8 different factories producing the sten gun and app. 250 sub contractors.
Feldl gun 11x50mmR Bavaria: 1867 Fokker-Leimberger: A.H.G. Fokker & Leimberger: 7.92×57mm Mauser Germany: 1916 Fyodorov–Shpagin Model 1922: 6.5×50mmSR Arisaka Soviet Union: 1922 Gardner gun United States: 1874 Gast gun: 7.92×57mm Mauser Germany: 1915 Gatling gun United States: 1861 GAU-8 Avenger: General Electric: 30×173mm United States ...
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Harold Turpin could refer to: Hal Turpin (1903–1997), American minor league baseball player Harold John Turpin , British draughtsman and one of the inventors of the Sten gun
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