Sheffield-made Kaskara

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Originally Posted by spiral

Bonjour! Ibrahim!

I am.

I have a list of many hundreds of engineering firms who made parts for machine guns, rifles, grenades or also like Singer sewing machines bayonets in ww1 or ww2.

Mechanical engineering is all the same whether bicycles, sewing machines or guns.

It was the facts {or not} re.the curved magazine part & the miniature railway company sten magazine manufacture you had made, that I was questioning., as clearly that's incorrect.

Salaams Spiral...In fact before I make a mistake and derail rather...the thread... I have checked my dates on this particular machine company and indeed they did make arms...the 75 mm ships cannon for example and the 9mm Pistol...but I will let you check that;please see http://singermemories.com/guns-sewing-machines/ and note I have pushed the envelope back more than 100 years so bringing a flavour of antiquity into my throw away remark on the Sten...which is rather too young a subject. ...The old chap who related the story to me may have got it mixed up...as I suggest with the Sten...if nothing else it perhaps illustrates how the modern era influenced weapons and in the case of the sword situation at thread how a modern machine part became part of an old sword...if in fact it did?

Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.