Original British WWI Lewis Gun Stop Pawl Assembly Original Display Machine Guns Mechanics are strong and crisp

Mechanics are strong and crisp

which consists of a patent number and date

The Lewis was not in service with the regular Belgian Army

it would be too expensive for anyone to buy

Remarkable

Original British WWI Lewis Gun Stop Pawl Assembly Original Display Machine Guns Mechanics are strong and crispOriginal Item: The Lewis gun introduced a new concept in feed systems for machine guns, resulting in the very distinctive flat drum magazine. The system of advancing and positioning the magazine was brilliantly simple. Exact positioning of the magazine for each shot was controlled by the stop pawl assembly, which consists of a right and left pawl and a stop pawl spring.