UNITED STATES MAY ADOPT BRITISH MADE RIFLE.
•7i*- > .i-:7*,..c: --.. .- AYA!SHIJi[O-TON, November 11. The immodjate -.purchase of 4600 Tickers machine,, rifles of the" present, standing model fpr; the equipment .of the reguiai* .army and national guards is rdl commend^di by the -joint,. board .of army, navy, and marine officers which has been studying. for months machine gun problems. -The, department has' £2,000,000 available, for this purpose. ' '..A preliin.innr'y report', from the board was .made pulilic to-day showing that ► further. tests, avo. to bo- made with other machine guns but. on -the. strength of information already in the War; Department and. that obtained from European battlefields, tho board- : sustained .il^e'crrfty ordnance department" in holding 'the .Bvitish-made Vickers 'giiii the most serviceable 'weapon' i.ibw available. The/ "board considered reports on several other foreign guns and upon the Lewis other"' American automatic rifles. I
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14190, 6 January 1917, Page 8
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140UNITED STATES MAY ADOPT BRITISH MADE RIFLE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14190, 6 January 1917, Page 8
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