"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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8 comments:
Stephen A Skubinna
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That's a Sten gun, Earnest! Designed to be manufactured in any modestly equipped machine shop, and the plans were smuggled into Occupied Europe so resistance groups could make their own firepower!
Are you paying attention, gun controllers? While you're trying to clamp down on the internet and 3D printers, you also need to shut down hardware stores and machine shops! Look up Phillip Luty some time.
What Stephen said reminded me of the Australian Owen gun. At the start of WW2 the Australian Army was looking for a sub machine gun to produce locally We were using Thompsons but they were scarce and expensive. In comes,Evelyn Owen aged 23, who had made a working prototype in a friends workshop whilst a teenager living near Wollongong. If you are wondering why a teenager would spend his time making a sub machinegun, I think his first name might be a giveaway. Anyway after little interest was shown in his invention he enlisted and was set to embark to the middle east. A friend of his fathers worked for a metal manufacturer and tidied it up a bit and re-submitted it to the Army and it proved a hit. The link has a video of the shoot-off between the Owen, Sten ,Thompson and a German gun. Special treat for Paco the video has men in fedoras shooting machineguns whilst having sand thrown at them.
https://youtu.be/23M6H_rec6Y?si=2kvBK1moKRvlhvLS
It won and was the Army's sub machinegun until 1971. It was much loved by the troops in the desert and the tropics. My father had one in Bogainville and loved it.
Yes I remember the TV series. Not really my cup of tea, what.
It got me thinking what got into the heads of parents, when presented with a new baby boy, decide to lumber him with Evelyn. It's one thing in foppish early 20th century England, but for a boy born in Wollongong (a working class steel producing city about 50 miles south of Sydney) in 1915 , it must have been a burden. A bit of Johhny Cash's my name is Sue going on.
Interesting fact that I just found on the interweb, Evelyn Waugh's first wife was Evelyn Gardner . Now my head hurts.
8 comments:
That's a Sten gun, Earnest! Designed to be manufactured in any modestly equipped machine shop, and the plans were smuggled into Occupied Europe so resistance groups could make their own firepower!
Are you paying attention, gun controllers? While you're trying to clamp down on the internet and 3D printers, you also need to shut down hardware stores and machine shops! Look up Phillip Luty some time.
Not only a great commercial for Hogan's Heroes, but a great PSA on how to NOT handle a firearm safely.
That video clip -- while hilarious -- made me shudder.
What Stephen said reminded me of the Australian Owen gun. At the start of WW2 the Australian Army was looking for a sub machine gun to produce locally We were using Thompsons but they were scarce and expensive.
In comes,Evelyn Owen aged 23, who had made a working prototype in a friends workshop whilst a teenager living near Wollongong. If you are wondering why a teenager would spend his time making a sub machinegun, I think his first name might be a giveaway. Anyway after little interest was shown in his invention he enlisted and was set to embark to the middle east.
A friend of his fathers worked for a metal manufacturer and tidied it up a bit and re-submitted it to the Army and it proved a hit.
The link has a video of the shoot-off between the Owen, Sten ,Thompson and a German gun.
Special treat for Paco the video has men in fedoras shooting machineguns whilst having sand thrown at them.
https://youtu.be/23M6H_rec6Y?si=2kvBK1moKRvlhvLS
It won and was the Army's sub machinegun until 1971.
It was much loved by the troops in the desert and the tropics.
My father had one in Bogainville and loved it.
Sorry that was the wrong link.
This one is shorter and has more hats.
https://youtu.be/23M6H_rec6Y?si=P73V2fWlortUP7EM
Great stuff, Mick, thanks!
not to be confused with Evelyn Waugh, who wrote Brideshead Revisited, which also included some fine fedoras and women's hats too.
Yes I remember the TV series. Not really my cup of tea, what.
It got me thinking what got into the heads of parents, when presented with a new baby boy, decide to lumber him with Evelyn. It's one thing in foppish early 20th century England, but for a boy born in Wollongong (a working class steel producing city about 50 miles south of Sydney) in 1915 , it must have been a burden. A bit of Johhny Cash's my name is Sue going on.
Interesting fact that I just found on the interweb, Evelyn Waugh's first wife was Evelyn Gardner . Now my head hurts.
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