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The McCrudden light machine rifle was invented by ex-Australian serviceman John Charles Raginald McCrudden (known as Reg) following his discharge from the AIF in 1917. It is believed there are only two surviving examples of this interesting weapon, one being held in the Pattern Room in Leeds, England. The other McCrudden Light Machine Rifle Mk1 is on extended loan to the Power House Museum exhibition in Sydney, Australia.
McCrudden’s first hand-built prototype was believed to have been manufactured at an engineering workshop in Randwick, Sydney. McCrudden and his guns traveled from Sydney to Jervis Bay for an audience with Commodore J S Dumaresq and Lt Cmdr Burgh. He was received favorably and recommendations were made that he should take the gun to England for assessment by the British War Office, Dumaresq forwarding a favorable report in light of the Navy’s pending trials to select a weapon to replace the Lewis Gun. Following Dumaresq’s advice McCrudden took his designs to England where he had additional weapons made by Kingsway Manufacturing Company Ltd in London.
There is one “small” issue with this gun, we don’t have enough photos of it to properly model it
There is no photo from the left side, nor of the mechanisms inside / when the feed cover is open, which are needed for reload animations
And powerhouse declined our inquiry
I’ll leave it open just in the tiny chance someone has more info, but its unlikely
this is a first, sad but i doubt they could even find a picture of the magazine much less the left side or internals, thanks for telling me some things are just not meant to be
If you’d like to know anything else: there were two types of magazines available—one that held 20 rounds and another that held 30 rounds.There is no 30-round magazine only the 20-round version remains in the blueprints.
Id love to have this in game as an Australian, interesting you guys asked the Powerhouse museum and they refused!
Idiots, its not that bloody hard to snap a couple photos, after all by putting it in an FPS game it would get more recognition. Indeed you guys couldve even recognised the Powerhouse Museum’s contribution for assistance (which helps with Australian tourism) but NOPE “computer says nooo”
Anyway, hopefully it can be added one day.
I see it as similar to an MG13 with a side mounted mag, it also resembles a KE7 a bit too.
