From: James Shanks (n1vbn@bit-net.com)
Date: Sun Apr 21 2002 - 19:54:09 PDT
Just to correct a typo/error? The Thomson 1921/1928 could be had with three
magazine options. 20 round stick, 50 round type L and last was the big daddy
100 round type C. The thirty round stick magazine was a WW II invention.
There was no larger magazine for a Thomson, the reason the British Tommy
didn't like the two different sized drum magazines was they were perfectly
silent on foot patrol until you fired one round then every step you took
there was the remaining rounds slapping inside the drum so the enemy could
hear you coming over a 100 meters away.
James Shanks
MVPA 23128
1998 IMZ 8.103 Russian OD paint job right from the Factory. (Built in the
original plant in Irbit, Siberia, Russia. Comes complete with sidecar.
www.ural.com
1984 HD FLHT-C
.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon.W.I. McMillan" <gwim2@student.open.ac.uk>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] ME262
> redmenaced@yahoo.com writes:
> >The British soldiers watching the burning Kettenkrad
> >are carrying Thompson machine guns. They have the 300
> >round drum magazines, evidently the Americans didn't
> >use those. Why did the British use them and not the
> >Americans?
> >
> >Joe
>
> Tch, Tch, Joe,
>
> even us furriners can recognise a Thompson 1928 A1 with a Cutts
> compensator, horizontal foregrip, and 50 round drum magazine. Us Brits
> bought a lot of thompsons at the start of hostilities, as the thompson was
> the only thing in production, in fact we even got a bundle of the original
> 1921 model Colt-Thompsons. We didn't particularly like the 50 round drum
> magazine but it worked and the 20 round was too small. Later in the war
> (maybe D-Day onwards, pretty much everyone had M1A1 version with 30 round
> stick mags, as seen in Saving Ryans Privates, but even the British Home
> Guard / Civil Defense were issued 1928A1's and drum mags.
>
> Gordon
>
>
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