Small Heath that after the last gun had been dispatched ![]() “When such a famous weapon as the Mark III with all itsĪssociations goes out of production, there is an inevitableįeeling of regret. ![]() Then I found this brief account, as part of a discussion of the Mark III Lee Enfield: He designed the BSA version of the Thompson machine gun, and was directly involved with the development of the Lee Enfield rifles. He was named inventor or co-inventor on all the pre-war BSA airgun patents, and on virtually all their firearms patents, and he had a particular penchant for designing repeating weapons and cartridge loading systems. He joined BSA in 1896, and progressed from assistant engineer to chief engineer by about 1910. I found out a bit of interesting history about George Norman. The prototype pistol pictured was made from the patent drawings by Mac Evans, the man who also built the BSA 1913 Patent lever cocking rifle pictured in the Gallery. Judging by its reported performance, it's perhaps just as well the gun didn't go into production, although BSA may have been able to iron out its flaws. With thanks to Prof John Griffiths, author of The Encyclopedia of Spring Air Pistols (2008), for this fascinating article on the 1911-12 Patent air pistol that BSA never made. ![]() The BSA Norman air pistol, by John Griffiths
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