Smith & Wesson 1940 Light Rifle Manual (for UK)

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Smith & Wesson 1940 Light Rifle Manual (for UK)22 pages about 11″ x 8″ glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from a nice original. Printed on high quality 20# 97 bright acid free paper. Fully Illustrated.We are not affiliated with any arms or gun manufacturer. PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR THE CONTENTS LIST Delivery: We print to order every two or three days and that way we can offer the entire 5500+ inventory at a reasonable price. Each item is printed, collated, bound, packaged and shipped as soon as we can but it takes a little time so please be patient. Quality: Our mission is to preserve old firearms catalogs at a reasonable price before they are all gone, but our reprints are NOT forgeries of originals, they are exact copies of the originals but not necessarily the exact size or on the original paper or with the original binding. This stinks! During the last 15 years we have had over 50,000 happy customers from all over the world, but we cannot please everyone all the time, nevertheless we can put things right, even if the post office destroys your package. Just let us know if you are disappointed. CONTENTS INCLUDE: The Model 1940 Light Rifle was a military semi-automatic carbine designed for Great Britain in preparation for World War II. The design was not considered suitable for full scale production. Most trials rifles sent to Great Britain were destroyed at the end of World War II. The Model 1940 Light Rifle was assembled from a Tenonite buttstock and milled steel parts with blued finish. The short barrel was fluted with twelve lateral indentations. A forward grip extending downward from the receiver served as a downward ejection port for spent cartridges and housed a detachable magazine with capacity for 20 cartridges. Although the ejection port design avoided flinging spent cartridges about it proved difficult to clear when jammed cartridges caused malfunctions. Use of machined parts made the weapon heavy and expensive to manufacture. In early 1939 the British government asked Smith & Wesson to design a light rifle firing the 919mm Parabellum cartridge for military use. The British government advanced one million dollars toward production of the design following receipt of prototypes assembled in accordance with a patent application filed on 28 June 1939. Testing at the Royal Small Arms Factory revealed the rifle had been designed for cartridges as loaded by United States civilian cartridge companies and the higher pressure United Kingdom military loads caused broken receivers after as few as 1000 rounds. The British government required redesign so rifles would withstand firing 5000 rounds without failure. The receiver was strengthened with an external sleeve to meet that requirement. Rifles with the strengthened receiver were designated Mark II and rifles with original receivers were subsequently referred to as Mark I. The British government cancelled the production contract after receiving 60 prototypes and 950 rifles. Approximately 750 were Mark I rifles and about 200 were the stronger Mark II design. The rifles were not issued to the armed forces; and most were cut in half and dumped at sea when the second world war ended. Five were saved for display in museums including the Tower of London. Smith & Wesson continued production with serial numbers as high as 2200 and the rifle was tested by the United States Army at Aberdeen Proving Ground. The Army rejected the design because the rifle was chambered for what was then a non-standard cartridge for the United States military. There was some discussion about redesign to permit full-automatic fire; but production was halted after a total of 1227 rifles mad been manufactured. The short-barreled weapons were considered unsuitable for sale to civilians under the National Firearms Act so an inventory of 217 remained at the Smith & Wesson factory until a dealer negotiated Curio and Relic Firearms status with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives in 1975. Firearms collectors subsequently purchased 137 Mark I and 80 Mark II rifles.CORNELL PUBLICATIONSWe ship worldwide within 5-8 days of payment and will cheerfully combine shipping charges for multiple purchases. Please see all our listings by following the links above or below. Also you may search the text of all our listings by entering a word(s) in ‘Search Store’ above. Please see thousands of firearms and sporting goods – books, manuals and catalogs from 1850s on for sale in our Ebay Store. Cornell Publications all rights reserved. Powered by SixBit’s eCommerce Solution

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