Word: swebilius
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Notably Production Chief Carl Gustave Swebilius, designer of the first U.S. machine gun that was synchronized with aircraft propellers (TIME...
...peace, Gus Swebilius went on working in gun laboratories and factories, in 1926 founded High Standard (to make sporting rifles, pistols). Last fall, the British wanted quick production of a .50-caliber Browning to mount in fighters (eight per British plane). Because Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Co. at Hartford was bogged in other orders, High Standard got a license to make the British guns...
Last November 14, a contract was signed. Gus Swebilius and his associates took a lot in Hamden, where the fire-ruined walls of a building stood. While a new 15-acre plant was abuilding, they scoured New England for old machine tools, cleaned up and in some cases rebuilt them in an old silk mill, rounded up skilled gunsmiths who had worked with Gus Swebilius during World War I. If they had waited for hard-to-get new tools, they would never have turned out their first guns last week...
Normal time for getting into such production is a year to 18 months. Said Colonel Robert Sears, executive officer of the Army's Hartford Ordnance District, when Swebilius & colleagues showed their first guns last week: "If these men had come to me during normal times and said that a little old plant employing 100 men could produce .50-caliber machine guns in less than six months, we would have given them a horse laugh heard around the world...
...British, Gus Swebilius last week had his production up to 300 a month, is shooting for 3,000 a month. When he has filled his British orders, the plant probably will be taken over by the U.S., which has lately followed the British in stepping up the caliber of its aircraft machine guns from .30 to .50. The new guns presumably fire an armor-piercing .50-caliber bullet which Winchester and Army Ordnance recently developed...