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Monday, 23 September 2019

England manufacturing herself Zalinsky dynamite guns according to the Dutch newspaper De Tijd dated 7 March 18901

An item reported that according to German tidings England bought the license to produce making the pneumatic dynamite guns of Zalinsky on behalf of the army and the navy. The intention to built as soon as possible first between fifty and sixty of these guns. The production was already started in the arsenal of Woolwich. The British cabinet seemed also have bought the patent for the quick firing gun invented by American naval officers. This gun fired three times faster as an Armstrong gun but was just accurate over a distance of 600 yards (549 metres).