Lewis and his factory moved to England before 1914, away from possible seizure in the event of a German invasion. 303 British round and, in 1914, BSA purchased a licence to manufacture the Lewis machine gun in England, which resulted in Lewis receiving significant royalty payments and becoming very wealthy. The Belgians bought a small number of Lewis guns in 1913, using the. Lewis had been working closely with British arms manufacturer the Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA) in an effort to overcome some of the production difficulties of the weapon. Lewis left the United States in 1913 and went to Belgium, where he established the Armes Automatique Lewis company in Liège to facilitate commercial production of the gun. Army to adopt his design, claiming that he was "slapped by rejections from ignorant hacks", and retired from the army. Lewis became frustrated with trying to persuade the U.S. military, most likely because of political differences between Lewis and General William Crozier, the chief of the Ordnance Department. Despite its origins, the Lewis gun was not initially adopted by the U.S.
Army colonel Isaac Newton Lewis in 1911, based on initial work by Samuel Maclean. The Lewis served to the end of the Korean War, and was widely used as an aircraft machine gun during both World Wars, almost always with the cooling shroud removed, as air flow during flight offered sufficient cooling.Ī predecessor to the Lewis gun incorporating the principles upon which it was based was designed by Ferdinand Mannlicher.
It had a distinctive barrel cooling shroud (containing a finned, aluminium breech-to-muzzle heat sink to cool the gun barrel) and top-mounted pan magazine. Designed privately in the United States though not adopted there, the design was finalised and mass-produced in the United Kingdom, and widely used by troops of the British Empire during the war. The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Gas-operated long stroke gas piston, rotating open bolt
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