"Experimental BSA-Kiraly machine carbine (1938 - 1939)" Topic
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Tango01  | 09 Feb 2024 4:49 p.m. PST |
"Other than Rudolf Frommer, Pal de Kiraly was probably Hungary's finest arms designer and was at the peak of his career during the interwar years. Initially he worked at SIG in Switzerland, but after falling out with their management, he returned to his native Hungary to design guns for the Army. While working at the Danuvia factory, he drew up plans for a 9mm SMG, which were then taken to the UK by Mr. Mark Dineley (an arms importer and renowned collector of militaria). Mr. Dineley showed these plans to the War Office in London and it elected some interest. The Board of Ordnance wanted to test this gun and so a license was acquired by Birmingham Small Arms to produce a small batch of prototypes. BSA made two versions to Kiraly's specifications – a long-barreled model and a short-barreled model – and submitted them for testing later that year. The results were very good and the only major complaint was leveled at the superbly complex trigger mechanism. Kiraly was open to this criticism and agreed that it should be simplified if production were to go ahead…"
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