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- From: jfrench@cs.tamu.edu (Jeff French)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Silenced rifles in WW
- Message-ID: <1jqle2INN8gn@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 15:59:34 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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- "The British Service Lee" by Ian Skennerton has a couple of pages on the
- De Lisle gun. It shows two models, the folding stocked Airborne (sic) Commando
- Carbine and the Skeletonized Commando Carbine.
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- The passage states that only 106 of the units were produced, these being made
- by Sterling.
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- This is a great book for SMLE fans, though I think it is long out of print.
- I bought mine many years ago, second hand, for $45.00. Hard cover, ~400 pages,
- purely technical. Lot's of good photos and patent drawings.
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