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Title: Name This...(586)
Post by: brady on July 31, 2003, 08:39:42 PM

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(http://www2.freepichosting.com/Images/64295/0.jpg)

Title: Name This...(586)
Post by: Maverick on July 31, 2003, 10:02:09 PM

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

Title: Name This...(586)
Post by: BenDover on July 31, 2003, 10:42:15 PM

Part of a Carry On film.

Title: Name This...(586)
Post by: Inferno on July 31, 2003, 10:42:28 PM

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

Title: Name This...(586)
Post by: Lev354 on August 01, 2003, 10:52:23 AM

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

Lev.

Title: Name This...(586)
Post by: MiloMorai 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.

Title: Name This...(586)
Post by: brady on August 01, 2003, 01:26:53 PM

20mm Polsten, it is:)