Lewis Gun Mechanism Made Easy: With Notes on the 300 (American) Lewis Gun

By Major C.H.B. Pridham and C. H. B. Pridham

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847348157
• ISBN13: 9781847348159
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Naval & Military Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"