MP40 or Vigneron magazines in a Lanchester

[Peter Laidler]

Have I seen an EM 2 mags.......... Are you kidding Tankie? We had boxes of the various sorts and calibres in the cellar, some numbered to the trials papers and others numbered to rifles and others in the white and.......

As for the Sten........ It's no use going over and over again and reinventing it. Facts is facts. He had £5 and a month paid absence to put his sketch designs into life. The mag had to be the one that was already in production BUT shorter so that it could be carried in the new 37 pattern pouches. And incidentally, produced at a rate of 17 per Sten produced so with 4.2 million Stens made, there should never ever be a world shortage in my humble opinion. That MP mags fit is by dint of coincidence of ancestry. And to be fair and looking from the bleedin obvious point of view, Britain in 1940/41 wasn't exactly brimming over with MP40 magazines.

The rest they say, is history, a bit like designing the Mk5 to take some of the readily available No4 parts

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