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Maverick · « **Reply #1 on:** July 31, 2003, 10:02:09 PM »

20 mm oerlican (sp?) cannon with drum feed, towed

BenDover · « **Reply #2 on:** July 31, 2003, 10:42:15 PM »

Part of a Carry On film.

Inferno · « **Reply #3 on:** July 31, 2003, 10:42:28 PM »

...which seems to be protecting the Dunlop factory.

Lev354 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 01, 2003, 10:52:23 AM »

British 20mm Polsten (copy of Oerlikon)?
Or maybe it is an Oerlikon....

Lev.

MiloMorai · « **Reply #5 on:** August 01, 2003, 11:34:49 AM »

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Originally posted by Lev354
British 20mm Polsten (copy of Oerlikon)?
Lev.

Me thinks your correct.

This is an early Polsten since it has a drum mag. Later models went to 30 rnd straight mags which were easier to change.

The Polsten was a simplified Oerlikon designed by a team of Polish engineers who had fled to GB in 1939.

brady · « **Reply #6 on:** August 01, 2003, 01:26:53 PM »

20mm Polsten, it is:)