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Two Unpublished WWII Instructional Handbooks on the Browning .300-Inch Heavy Machine Gun. BO 441. - BO 441
*The Browning Heavy Machine Gun - .300 Calibre model 1917 (Water cooled) mechanism made easy. Mint paperback 32 illustrated pages. Publishers foreword; The handbook on the Browning heavy machine gun has been specially written with a view to enabling the reader to master the mechanism, stripping, stoppages and firing of the gun in the shortest possible time. *Instructional Notes on the .300-inch Browning Heavy Machine Gun. (Model 1917) 1940. Paperback, 50 illustrated pages. Contents include; Mechanism, elementary gun drill, hasty emplacements and aiming instruction etc. The price for these hard to find handbooks includes UK delivery. BO 441.
£95.00

*Scarce* Set of 1950’s Infantry Training Pamphlets Volume 1 Numbers 6- 9. BO 440. - BO 440
Volume 1 – Pamphlet No 6 – Light Machine Gun and Section Handling. Paperback 47 illustrated pages covering; Aiming, holding and firing, coaching, fixed lines and Further stripping etc. Volume 1 – Pamphlet No 7 – Grenades. Paperback 62 illustrated pages covering; The 36 grenade, grenade igniter set, the ready position, throwing and using the high wire etc. Volume 1 – Pamphlet No 8 – The 2 inch Mortar. Paperback 53 illustrated pages covering; The lying position, The spade base ‘bedded in’, Use of smoke in the following wind and the base plate mortar etc. Volume 1 – Pamphlet No 9 part 1. Paperback 18 illustrated pages *some loose but present* covering; Tactical handling, loading, un-loading and firing, fitting the nose fuze and firing-standing and kneeling etc. See images for condition.The price for this scarce set includes UK delivery. BO 440.
£125.00

*Scarce* Set of 1940’s Infantry Training Pamphlets Volume 1 Numbers 1- 4. BO 439. - BO 439
Volume 1 – Pamphlet No 1 – General. Paperback 14 pages covering; Object of Training, Progression in training, Weapons, Tactics etc. Volume 1 – Pamphlet No 2 – Fieldcraft. Paperback 77 illustrated pages covering; Observation and concealment, recognition of targets and judging distance, Fire discipline, Elementary movement and obstacle crossing by day etc. Volume 1 – Pamphlet No 3 – Rifle and Bayonet. Paperback 123 illustrated pages covering; Rifle stripping, assembling and sight setting, Loading and un-loading, Personal concealment etc. Volume 1 – Pamphlet No 4 – The Sub-Machine Gun. Paperback 37 illustrated pages covering; Stripping, cleaning, assembling and magazine filling, Zeroing, How the SMG works, and stoppages etc. See images for condition.The price for this scarce set of training pamphlets includes UK delivery. BO 439.
£125.00

Pair of War Office Small Arms Training Books from 1924 & 1931. BO 438. - BO 438
Two copies of ‘Small Arms Training’ one from 1924 and one from 1931 Issued by the Command of the Army Council and The War Office. 1924 edition; hardback, 403 illustrated pages. Contents (75) covering; Individual weapons training, range duties, battle practices, throwing, dummy firing amongst many more. 1931 edition; hardback, 370 illustrated pages. Contents (45) covering; (Lewis Gun Training) holding, loading and un-loading, stripping and assembly, elementary handling , Lewis gun packsaddlery amongst many more. These books are obviously out of print and very scarce. The price includes UK delivery. BO 438.
£125.00

*Rare/Original WWI Handbook for the ‘Lewis Machine Gun – Airplane Type’. BO 437. - BO 437
An original WWI Handbook for the ‘Lewis Machine Gun – Airplane Type’. The handbook starts with a general description of the modern machine gun. ‘Modern machine guns are classified by feeding means, operating means and cooling means’. The table of contents includes ; weights and measurements, dismounting and stripping, assembling, points of flight, cleaning and maintenance amongst numerous others. Paperback, 63 illustrated pages with a large colour fold out exploded diagram of the machine gun. The book is in excellent condition. The price for this very rare book includes UK delivery. BO 437. (Drawer 200)
£125.00

*Out of Print Classic-As New* ‘The Grand Old Lady of No Mans Land-The Vickers Machinegun’ by Dolf L. Goldsmith. BO 436. - BO 436
The Grand Old Lady of No Mans Land is Dolf Goldsmiths triumphant , in-depth sequel to his bestselling ‘The Devils Paintbrush-Sir Hiram Maxims Gun’, which first set the stage in the late nineteenth-century era of the hand-cranked, black powder ‘machinegun’ wherein the concept of re-coil was considered ‘at best useless and at worst dangerous’. Hardback with dust cover, 565 illustrated pages in as new condition. The price for this out of print classic includes UK delivery. BO 436.
£375.00
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