AUSTRALIAN GUN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1385, 13 April 1915, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN GUN.

THOUSAND SHOTS A MINUTE. ADMIP A LTV TKiAL. MELDOCUNK. March 27. A- llie olileia 1 test of the first trial gun. which had boon lunch worn by llie demons’, ivy unis in Melbourne and .Sydney. .Admiral Sir Percy Scott attemled on’ behalf of the Admiralty. The experts agreed lo adopt the gttn if a few defects were remedied. Mr T. K. Caldwell, the inventor, assures the Melbourne company that these detects are due solely to the hard wear experienced by the gun. It was sifter the special .report from the Admiralty experis had become, known that the London syndicate agreed to purchase the invention, and to build a large iaetory lor its manufaei ure. .(further cables have passed, between Hie Caldwell Gun Company. .Ltd., and the London purchasers of the invention. The purchasing syndicate agreed last Week to pay the company to-A.tjOO cash and it royalty of ij t a gun. with ten per emit of foreign royalties. it lias now 1 nnlier agreed to build a factory capable of turning out ‘-’(ID gnus a week, tills being four times the capacity of the Hritish Vicars Maxim Ltd.’s works. A cable received hist night announced that the new trial gun asked ior by the Admiralty will be ready iu a low weeks, and it is fully expected that, complete olliciai approval will lie given to tin- weapon. The inventor is u young Melbourne engineer., less than sft, in stature, ami it is recalled of him that lie was fve(pienlly in trouble at the llurnley State School as a boy because of a liking for playing with gunpowder. The gun. described some months ago in the Sun, has two barrels, is simpler and lighter than the -Maxim, cannot be jammed, ami Jires IOW .shots a miiV.ne.