1918 Lewis Machine Gun Manual PDF Download

Handbook of the Lewis Machine Gun (Airplane Type) – Model 1917-18 - Caliber .30 Perfect Scanned copy. 67 pages scanned as High resolution TIF images and then digitally cleaned page by page. Guaranteed the best quality copy of this manual available. Packed with invaluable data including 12 B&W Photographic Plates and a magnificent 5 page fold out Colour Cut-away diagram. (See detailed contents list below) Manual printed circa 1918 by the Beck Engraving Company for the Savage Arms Corporation of Utica, New York, USA. The Lewis Machine Gun Was produced in the United Kingdom and the United States and was one of the most important aircraft weapons used by most Allied airforces in World War I. It was also used by land and naval forces, however this manual is specifically for the Aircraft version. Many of these weapons were also utilised during the second world war. The Lewis has the distinction of being the first machine gun fired from an aircraft in 1912 and just some of the famous aircraft equipped with the Lewis included: Bristol Scout F.B.5 Airco D.H.2 Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8 S.E.5a Avro 504 Nieuport 11 Nieuport 17 S.E.5a Sopwith Camel Bristol F2b Fighter Sopwith Dolphin Table of Contents General Description Weights and Measurements Dismounting and Stripping Spade Grip Feed Cover Feed Operating Arm Charging Handle Piston and Rack and Bolt Receiver Gear Casing Guard Ejector Gas Regulator Cup Barrel Retaining Nut Locking Piece Gas Cylinder Recoil Check Gas Chamber Gland Gas Chamber Assembling To Alter Mainspring Tension Operation To Fill Magazine with Loading Handle To Fill Magazine with Loading Tool To Load Gun To Fire Full Automatic Fire Semi-Automatic Fire Safety To Put Gun at “Safe” When at “Safe” To Put Gun in Action To Unload Gun Care and Adjustment Inspection of Cartridges Shell Deflector Points before Flight Points during Flight Points after Flight Points when Machine Gun is Placed in Box Notice to Armourers Cleaning and Oiling Stoppages Sequence of Immediate Action Immediate Action in Replacing Parts To Change Cartridge Guide To Change Magazine Pawls To Change Feed Pawl To Change Extractors To Change Gear Complete To Change Receiver Locking Pin To Change Charging Handle To Change Ejector Parts for Lewis Machine Gun List of Illustrations Plate I – Lewis Machine Gun (Airplane Type) Frontispiece Plate II – Gun Complete, Showing Right & Left Sides Plate III – Barrel Group Plate IV – Feed Mechanism Group Plate V – Spade Grip Plate VI - Magazine Plate VII – Loading Tool Plate VIII – Shell Deflector Plate IX – Back Sight Plate X - Accessories Plate XI – Gun Box & Magazine Container Plate XII – Receiver Group, Mainspring &Trigger Mechanism Colour Plate – Full Colour Cutaway of Gun