#BRITISH STEN MK II PISTOL GRIP TRIAL#

The report concluded by saying, вЂThis carbine appears to be fundamentally sound and functions satisfactorily and accurately.вЂ™В Arrangements were then made to organize production and the firstВ weaponsВ began to come from the factories in June 1941. The various tests were passed satisfactorily, 5400 rounds being fired without breakages or malfunction. The N.O.T.40/1 was tested and a report submitted on 31 January.

#BRITISH STEN MK II PISTOL GRIP TRIAL#

It was demonstrated at the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock on 10 January 1941 and again on 21 January, whereupon instructions were given for an immediate trial and a rapid decision as to whether the manufacture of the Lanchester should proceed as planned or whether its production should be curtailed in favor of the new design.ДЄs the Ordnance Board pointed out the following day, вЂthe most important consideration at the moment seems to be to get some form of machine carbine acceptable to all three services into production as quickly as possible.вЂ™ Turpin of the Chief superintendent of DesignвЂ™s department. A simplified weapon, designated the вЂN.O.T. Then, in the first few days of January 1941, the situation changed. An acceptance trial of the new weapon, known as the Lanchester, was carried out on 28 November 1940 and arrangements for production were put in hand. At the same time an order for 110 million rounds of 9mm ammunition was placed in the USA, since the manufacturing capacity for this caliber in Britain was then negligible. In the summer of 1940 the British Government began to look seriously at the subВmachine gun question, and in August a decision was taken to put into production a copy of the German MP28 from WW1, an order for 50,000В weaponsВ being contemplated. But when youвЂ™re with me in the night, IвЂ™ll tell you, pal, youвЂ™re just alright! -вЂњOde to a Sten Gun,вЂќ by S.N. You wicked piece of vicious tin!/Call you a gun? DonвЂ™t make me grin./YouвЂ™re just a bloated piece of pipe.

British sten mk ii pistol grip