Word: lee-enfield
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...major attempt at standardization failed. Britain went ahead with plans to replace her old .303-caL, bolt-action Lee-Enfield rifle, which dates back, to the Boer War, with a lighter, faster, .280-cal. automatic model. U.S. experts had hoped the British would adopt a -3O-cal. weapon capable of firing the same ammunition as the U.S. Garand...
...strengthen him. It had been a week of swift decision: he announced the release by executive order of Navy planes which, to be resold to the Allies, were flown at once to Buffalo, en route to Canada; by the same device he had made available more than 500,000 Lee-Enfield rifles, machine guns, ammunition, 755. But the great strain of the week had been his last-minute efforts to prevent Mussolini's attack. He smiled and waved when the crowd at the Charlottesville station hailed his arrival. Then, through the streets of quiet Charlottesville, he drove...
...across the screen marched battalions of snappy, young soldiers in new khaki uniforms with new Lee-Enfield rifles...
...King-Emperor's personal equipage by Edward VII and used exclusively by George V. Ready for the road a Daimler "Double-Six" weighs over three tons, costs over $8,500, represents the supreme peacetime achievement of its militant makers the B. S. A. (Birmingham Small Arms) munitions trust (Lee-Enfield rifles) who also make popular priced cars called simply ''B. S. A.'s." Smartest of medium-priced British sports cars today is the "M. G.," a rip-roaring little red bug made by sedate Morris Garages...