Also, I am not very surprised that this MG had a 24 round mag, because the 6.5mm version looks a lot like a successor to the 8mm version that was made for tanks, but lost the competition in favour of the Breda 38. More infos here: Mitragliatrice Breda Modello 1938 per Carri Armati - Tank Encyclopedia
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Testing recoil with stock soldiers + no crouching? No wonder you can’t control the FG 42
So I found a source discussing British tests of this weapon, I have already forwarded it to a community helper.
The big things are that the rate of fire is listed at 780-800 RPM. It also claims that the magazine capacities are for 25 and 50 rounds respectively, but they only tested the weapon with 15 rounds. Combine this with the Italian books claiming the large magazine holds 40 rounds, I believe the British tests are incorrect on the magazine capacity.
I think your illustration is correct. 20 rounds for the small magazine. 40 for the large one.
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probably, while they were putting 25 rounds into the magazine, they broke the spring, which is why it stopped feeding more than fifteen rounds.
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They literally only had 15 rounds of 6.5x52mm carcano to test the weapon, it’s not that they couldn’t fit any more into the magazine.
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