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    The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States...
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    Lewis Machine & Tool Company (LMT) is an American armaments company founded by Karl Lewis, in 1980. It manufactures weapon systems, including a variant...
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    marksman rifle manufactured by Lewis Machine & Tool Company (LMT) for the British Armed Forces. In 2009, Lewis Machine & Tool Co was contracted to supply...
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  • rifle) Pattern 1914 Enfield (Used as sniper rifle) Lewis gun Bren light machine gun Vickers machine gun No.36M Mk.I grenade No.69 Mk.I grenade (Concussion...
    289 KB (23,514 words) - 22:34, 16 June 2024
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    a line facing the bandit camp and sent the smaller crews with three Lewis machine guns to the flank in a position where they covered the enemy rear, setting...
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    Lennox Claudius Lewis CM CBE (born 2 September 1965) is a boxing commentator and former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003. He is a three-time...
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    The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco...
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  • carrier-cammed bolt mechanism; the same type of mechanism was used on the Lewis machine gun. The straight-line layout allowed the operating rod and buffer to...
    66 KB (7,416 words) - 04:10, 8 June 2024
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    assembly. The gas port has been opened to 0.070 in (1.8 mm). A number of Lewis Machine & Tool 10.5" (266.7 mm) upper receivers have also been reported to have...
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    (1989). A Resource Book for Machine Knitters. Self-published. OCLC 60063326. Lewis, Susanna; Weissman, Julia (1986). A Machine Knitter's Guide to Creating...
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    the grooves, cooling the front part of the barrel, similarly to the Lewis machine gun. Constant forced cooling of the front part of the barrel reduces...
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    about £100 for the Vickers, Lewis machine-guns were in high demand with the British military during World War I. The Lewis had the advantages of being...
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    Retrieved 2012-12-17. Lewton, Frederick Lewis (1930). "The Servant in the House: A Brief History of the Sewing Machine". The Smithsonian Report for 1929. 3056:...
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    British Army's primary machine gun, and was used on all fronts during the conflict. When the Lewis Gun was adopted as a light machine gun and issued to infantry...
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    professionally as Huey Lewis, is an American singer, songwriter and actor. Lewis sings lead and plays harmonica for his band, Huey Lewis and the News, in addition...
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    Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English retired actor. Often described as one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema...
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  • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is a nonfiction book by Michael Lewis about the build-up of the United States housing bubble during the 2000s...
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    government to manufacture Lewis machine guns. In 1916 this same company announced the development of its own indigenous design of machine gun. This belt-fed...
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    Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch; March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer and humanitarian who was famously nicknamed...
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    Philip Charlton in 1941 to act as a substitute for the Bren and Lewis gun light machine guns which were in severely short supply at the time. The original...
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