9mm Parabellum Rifling & Twist.. 2 or 6 Groove,Right Hand, 1:10' Barrel Length.. Overall Length.. 6 lbs, 10 oz Magazine Capacity. 32 rounds Qty Mfg... 1,950,000 at Fazakerley, 2,466,383 total between August 1941 and March 1945. The Sten Machine Carbine by Peter Laidler (2000) - ISBN: 0-88935-259-3 Sten Machine Carbine Mk II (18 picture virtual tour) Observations: (by 'Claven2') Note: Pics of rifle provided courtesy of Milsurps.com moderator Claven2. Power Reading Rick Ostrov Pdf Creator.

The First World War had demonstrated to the world the utility of the submachine gun. Free Mp4 Movie Download Silver Linings Playbook on this page. The Germans, in particular, had put the MP18 to good use with its 9mm parabellum cartridge and 32 round detachable snail drum magazine. The MP28 brought further refinements after the war, primarily by doing away with the temperamental and difficult to produce snail drum magazine in favor of a much simple box magazine. In 1940, after the set backs of Dunkirk, the British Ministry of Defense began to see the seriousness of the situation in europe and to recognize the value of the submachine gun, which hitherto had been thought of as a classless thug-weapon unworthy of widespread use by the British Tommy. Initially, the Royal Air Force began to push for some form of submachine gun for airfield defense with a strong preference for a copy of the expensive and difficult to produce German MP38. As the development of an entirely new or overly complex weapon was not feasible in a very short timeframe, it was decided to directly copy the German MP28, captured examples of which were reverse-engineered.

Given the pressing need, the navy decided to join with the RAF in adopting the new weapon, and played a key role in its design. This 'new' submachine gun was given the name Lanchester after George H. Lanchester, the man tasked with development and production of the gun at the Sterling Armament Company. Ultimately, only the Royal Navy would deploy the Lanchester in significant numbers.

Sten Machine Carbine Mk II. Sten MkII, magazine well. Barrel with the secondary serial number stamped in. Note the serial number was oriented up when installing.

The Lanchester was supplanted for non-naval British forces by a more mass produceable submachine gun in the Sten Mk1. Designed and championed by Harold John Turpin and Col. Shepherd, the Sten MkI was superior to the Lanchester in that it was lighter, cheaper and much faster to produce. The basic premise of the Sten was developed in one evening (December 2, 1940) by Harold Turpin when he sketched the trigger and sear mechanism on a scrap of paper. The sketch still exists today and all Sten guns are still identical to that hand sketch.

The Sten MkI was manufactured beginning in March of 1941 by the Singer Sewing Machine Company, Ltd. - ultimately 300,149 would be built including both MkI and MkI* patterns. The MkI* differed in that the wooden forestock was replaced with the now-familiar sheet steel cover and the spoon-billed flash eliminator. A Sten MkI* took 12 hours to manufacture. In late March 1941, Turpin received a request to modify the Sten for paratrooper use, making it lighter and more compact.

The resultant gun would become the Sten MkII, and the first order was placed in August 1941 with Longbranch in Canada for 17,000 guns. In the UK, the guns were made by BSA (starting Sept. 1941), Fazakerley (starting Dec.

1941), and Theale (starting Mar. Prototypes were also made at RSAF Enfield. Fazakerley was to be the most prolific producer. Unlike many British firearms, the producer was not explicily marked on the UK-produced Sten guns (as opposed to Longbranch which did mark them). Rather, Fazakerley guns are prefixed with an 'F', BSA guns with a 'B' and Theale guns with a 'T'. Installer Creator All Version Razor12911. Sometimes a second letter character proceeds the factory ID letter which increased by one letter after each run of 99,999 guns was produced. One problem that came to light during the war was the receiver tube construction.

At one point, Drawn Over Mandrel (DOM) tubing became scarce and some tubes were made by rolling sheet metal stampings into tubes with integrated trigger housing plates. These did not prove strong enough in use and most were later scrapped. The parts were then re-used in production. Sten MkII's were produced with, primarily, two types of buttstocks. The early T-type stock (depicted on the subject Sten) and a loop-type stock aproximating the shape of a wooden rifle butt.

Other versions of the Sten were produced with still more buttstock or pistol grip variations. Sten MkII bolts were produced both of machined steel, and of cast aluminum-bronze. The steel versions are much more commonly encountered as the Al-Bronze versions typically did not last as long in service before requiring replacement and were also made in fewer quantities. Their very existence was due to a general shortage of ordnance-grade steels during the war.