british smgs

[philb]

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[browningautorifle]

Some very nice guns in there...seldom seen.

[philb]

interesting photo of a patchett at Arnhem

[Peter Laidler]

Definately NOT Arnhem. It's been numerically proved time and time again. The guns that were at the Airborne Trials unit had been returned by then and all the serial numbers are recorded out - and back in to Patchett at Dagenham!

Why o' why do these commentators, researchers and authors who really ought to know better STILL keep repeating the worn out old mantra that the EN in Sten indicates Enfield. Nothing of the sort. It is England. And the papers from the period still exist and are quoted ver-batim in the book exactly as told by Harold Turpin. That's as close as it's possible to get to the proverbial horses mouth. But a bit better that one published article which stated that the word STEN came from an amalgam of ST, as in Sterling and EN, as in Enfield