BREN GUNS
PRODUCTION ON WARrTIME SCALE PRACTICAL TEST BY MINISTER * (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, January’ 24. The Secretary for War, Mr L. HoreBelisha, visited the Royal Small Arms factory at Enfield and fired 30 rounds from a Bren gun at a 200yds target. He declared that production was now on a war-time scale. Tbe gun is composed of 172 parts, and passes through 3,174 operations, in which 4,987 gauges are employed. At Enfield 3.400 employees are engaged, in addition to the manufacture of machine guns, on the production of revolvers, and repair of rifles, and machine guns.
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Evening Star, Issue 23175, 26 January 1939, Page 13
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