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September 6, 2025

Unique British Crankfire .58 Morse Manual Machine Gun

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, USA — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Forgotten Weapons
Published 30 Apr 2025

This is a really interesting piece with a mostly unknown origin. It was manufactured in the UK (the barrel was deemed Enfield-made by former Royal Armouries curator Herb Woodend) and is chambered for the .58 Morse centerfire cartridge. The date of production is unknown. It uses a gravity-feed magazine and fires via hand crank. Turning the crank cycles the bolt forward and back, not completely unlike a Maxim gun but without the automatic operation. It came out of a small Canadian museum in the 1950s, but its provenance before that is unknown.

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