NEW OWEN GUNS
STRONG ADVOCACY IN AUSTRALIA (Special Australian Correspondent, N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 7 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 26. The relative merits of the American Thompson and the lighter Australian Owen and Austen sub-machine-guns are being widely debated following complaints that the Owen gun was not issued to Australian troops in the early stages of the New Guinea fighting. The inventor of the Owen gun, Mr Evelyn Owen, has claimed that this gun, which can be produced for about £B, against £4O as the cost of the Thompson gun, has been “knocked by highly-placed army officials, who were under the thumb of certain outside interests.” Although production of the gun was begun last January, states Mr Owen, he has received not a penny in royalties from the army.
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Southland Times, Issue 24885, 27 October 1942, Page 5
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126NEW OWEN GUNS Southland Times, Issue 24885, 27 October 1942, Page 5
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