Lewis Gun Mechanism Made Easy: With Notes on the 300 (American) Lewis Gun (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781847348159)

The US-made Lewis gun, with its distinctive circular ammunition drums, replaced the VIckers as the standard British Army machine gun in the First World War. This 1941 reprint of a manual first published in January 1919 shows that the versatile Lewis was still a popular and effective weapon twenty years later. Written by a former Officer-Instructor at the Army's School of Musketry at Hythe in Kent, the booklet describes the correct loading and unloading of the gun; the action of the firing mechanism; the magazine; the action of gases and the cooling system and notes on how to deal with jams and stoppages.

Author: Major C. H. B. Pridham
ISBN-10: 1847348157
ISBN-13: 9781847348159
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Language: English
Published: 02/09/2009
Pages: 48
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.12d