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WW2 New Zealand Charlton Automatic Rifle 1:35/1:72

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Publication date 2024-03-18 at 14:29
Design number 1863706

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The Charlton automatic rifle was a fully automatic conversion of the Lee–Enfield rifle, designed by New Zealander Philip Charlton in 1941 to act as a substitute for the Bren and Lewis gun light machine guns which were in severely short supply at the time.

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The original Charlton automatic rifles were converted from obsolete Lee–Metford and magazine Lee–Enfield rifles dating from as early as the Boer War,[1] and were intended for use as semi-automatic rifles with the full-automatic capabilities retained for emergency use.[2] It used the 10-round Lee–Enfield magazines and modified 30-round Bren magazines. The weapon was never intended for use as a frontline combat weapon, instead being designed and adopted primarily for the New Zealand Home Guard.[3]

There were two versions of the Charlton: the New Zealand version, as designed and manufactured by Charlton Motor Workshops in Hastings, and a version produced in Australia by Electrolux, using the SMLE Mk III* for conversion.[4] The two designs differed markedly in external appearance (amongst other things, the New Zealand Charlton had a forward pistol grip and bipod,[5] whilst the Australian lacked this, making it lighter and cleaner in appearance[6]), but shared the same operating mechanism.

Approximately 1,500 Charlton automatic rifles were manufactured in New Zealand,[7] and nearly all of them were destroyed in an accidental fire at the ordnance depot located at the Palmerston North Show Grounds shortly after World War II.

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