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LEFT MACHINE GUN 61 MACHINE GUN the hopper through a grooved carrier The guns which have been in use in to barrels, and by a cam and plunger recent times have been either of the semi- mechanism the cartridge was pressed automatic or automatic type, in which use VICKERS MACHINE GUN home, discharged as it passed a firing is made of the powder gas and recoil cam, and removed by mechanical extrac- force for operation. The Colt machine tors. Various improvements were made gun (Browning patent) and Benet-Mer- to this gun, particularly to the loading cie guns, in which the power of recoil LEWIS MACHINE GUN device. The gun was used with excellent was used to operate a lever, were used results by the British in the Zulu and until the time of the World War by the Sudan campaigns. Special models of American army and navy. The Jap- this gun have fired as many as one anese Yamanouchi and the Hotchkiss thousand shots a minute. gun. used by the French, applied the Vol. VI— Cyc — K