NEW SUB-MACHINE GUN
AUSTRALIAN INVENTION TRIAL ORDER PLACED SYDNEY, July '2 Australian troops will bo equipped with an Australian-designed and built sub-machine gun if tests now being conducted are successful. The designer of the gun is a young New South Wales private in the Australian Imperial Force named Owen, who claims that his gun can be easily and rapidly manufactured on ordinary garage lathes. When the Minister for the Army, Mr. Spender, visited Newcastle recently a man showed him a model. Military authorities were not enthusiastic about adopting the gun because the Australian Army preferred to use standardised British-pattern weapons. Mr. Spender, however, took the gun direct to the Cabinet and the Government decided to place a trial order for its manufacture. This is now being carried out. The object of the trial order is to determine how, in what time, and at what cost production could bo completed. A big advance claimed for the Owen sub-machine gun is that it can be manufactured without any special tooling up. The calibre of' the gun is a secret, but it is stated that locally-manufactured ammunition could bo provided for it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24011, 8 July 1941, Page 8
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