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Photographs of a 40mm Naval Gun converted to an automatic aircraft weapon for endurance trials.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 176\1\  img222
Date  19th May 1942
  
SECRET.

To Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} from Ve/NP.

Ve/NP.5/CB.19.5.42.

Attached herewith are photographs of the 40 mm. Gun, type BH Mark I.

This is the 40 mm. Naval Gun converted to a 9-round Automatic weapon for use in aircraft and the photographs show the gun as submitted for the endurance trials at Boscombe Down during April.

Ve/NP. SE
  
  
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).


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