Forgotten Weapons
Archival E.M.2 Footage: Slow Motion and Janson Doing Mag Dumps
2020 • E101 Apr 25, 2020
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Thanks to Jonathan Ferguson and Royal Armouries Archivist Philip Abbott, we have a compilation of some archival video of the E.M. 2 testing circa 1951/1952. This is mostly high speed video clips showing reliability testing, plus drop tests and other "rough handling". At the end, there are a series of clips of test-firing rifle grenades (the framing unfortunately crops out the grenades themselves), and then the coolest part - Stefan Janson himself dumping about a hundred rounds through an E.M. 2 as fast as he can.
Janson, of course, was the rifle's designer. A Polish expatriate working in the UK, his was born Stefan Januszewski, but Anglicized his name when he lived in England.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/thorneycroft-to-sa80-british-bullpup-firearms-19012020?ref=dt923d
Thanks to Jonathan Ferguson and Royal Armouries Archivist Philip Abbott, we have a compilation of some archival video of the E.M. 2 testing circa 1951/1952. This is mostly high speed video clips showing reliability testing, plus drop tests and other "rough handling". At the end, there are a series of clips of test-firing rifle grenades (the framing unfortunately crops out the grenades themselves), and then the coolest part - Stefan Janson himself dumping about a hundred rounds through an E.M. 2 as fast as he can.
Janson, of course, was the rifle's designer. A Polish expatriate working in the UK, his was born Stefan Januszewski, but Anglicized his name when he lived in England.
http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons
https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home
Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http://shop.bbtv.com/collections/forgotten-weapons
Contact:
Forgotten Weapons
6281 N. Oracle #36270
Tucson, AZ 85740