A Deadly Weapon.
Messrs Kynoch & Co., of Birmingham, have for some time past been engaged in perfecting the mechanism of a new quick-firing Run, and they have succeeded in producing a weapon a long way ahead of any other gun of a similar <* •ype. By turning a wheel the wttfTe*"' 1 inechanißm ia set working, and 200 magazine bullets are discharged per minufee. The gun, which only weighs a hundredweight, is 'tingle*
barrelled, and while in action is kept 000 lby a water jacket which is filled automatically. The firing action is supplied with cartridges by an endless belt which passes through a box and collects the cartridges. The gun will kill at three miles, and as ihe barrel is made to swing from right to left it will probably prove to be one of the most deadly weapons of modern warfare.
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Manawatu Herald, 21 February 1899, Page 2
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142A Deadly Weapon. Manawatu Herald, 21 February 1899, Page 2
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