NEW BRITISH GUN
RAPID RATE OF PRODUCTION (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 13. No gun has ever been designed, tested or ordered as quickly as the allBritish Sten gun. When the British Army lost its equipment at Dunkirk the Americans had the Thompson submachine gun and the Germans had the Schmeisser type. Two British designers got down to their drawing boards in December. 1940, and completed the design and made a prototype of the gun in one month, and by the end of January the gun had passed the War Office test and the first order for 100,000 had been placed. The gun is now being produced in tens of thousands every week.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24968, 15 July 1942, Page 3
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113NEW BRITISH GUN Otago Daily Times, Issue 24968, 15 July 1942, Page 3
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