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Unique British Crankfire .58 Morse Manual Machine Gun (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2025-04-30 12:00:13 +0000 UTCThis 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 cam out of a small Canadian museum in the 1950s, but its provenance before that is unknown.
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Squid556
The “stock” shape is strange to me. It seems more like a cover with no real provision to hold and manipulate the firearm.
Alexander Thomas
This is peak Forgotten Weapons content!
