NEW ANTI-AIRCRAFT CUNS
S WHIMS 11 DESIGNED LONDON, Nov. o.—The new aufiaircrat gun to which relercnce was made in Parliament, by Mr. L. H< reHelislui is a product of Sweden. It is known as the Holers, and is the equipment for light anti-aircraft brigades. It is a. two-pounder higbly-mobifc gun of Hie pom-pom type and similar in design, though not so large, as the naval pom-pom. It has a high rate of fire which can he used on what is known as the “hosepipe” type. Some of the newly raised light; antiaircraft. units are already equipped with it. The guns wen* used at some of the practice camps in the summer. These were made in Sweden. As in the case of the Hron light machine-gun. which came Irmn Czechoslovakia, the Government Inis acquired the manufacturing rights and arrangements have been made for product ion in this country.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 128, 30 December 1938, Page 3
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147NEW ANTI-AIRCRAFT CUNS Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 128, 30 December 1938, Page 3
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