MERITS OF OWEN GUN
SYDNEY, October 26,
’l’be relative merits of the American Thompson and the lighter Australian Owen and Austen sub-niaeliineguns are being widely debated following complaints that the Owen gun was not issued to tlie Australian troops in the early stages of tlie New Guinea lighting. Tlie inventor of the Owen gun, Mr. Evelyn Owen, hits claimed that his gun, which can be produced for about £B, bgainst £4O. tlie cost of tlie Thompson gon, has been “knocked by highly-placed Army officials who were under tlie thumb of certain outside interests.” Though production of the gun was begun last January, Owen states Unit he has received not oue penny in royalties from the Army.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19421027.2.51
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 27, 27 October 1942, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
116MERITS OF OWEN GUN Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 27, 27 October 1942, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in