Training Camera

stephen · 6 July 1999, 08:20 PM

Like to know if any one knows of machine gun training camera

PeterL · 7 July 1999, 06:25 PM

Do you mean a gun-camera?

stephen · 10 July 1999, 09:30 PM

This was a camera that looked like like a machine gun mounted on an aircraft, used for training.

11 July 1999, 05:46 AM

photo of a gun camera fitted to a Bristol F2b on
page 36 of Bristol F2B Fighter, King of Two Seaters by Chaz Bowyer. I think I've seen other photos but I can't remember where. I doubt if they were carried in combat but......

11 July 1999, 12:29 PM

Stephen
Sorry it took me forever to find this article. It is in an old publication called Aerial Age from April 1919 that has a two page article on British Gun Cameras during the war. It was apparently mounted on a standard Lewis Gun. It is fairly detailed - if you want it I'll be glad to e-mail you a photocopy of the article - just drop me a line at my e-mail address if you want it. I've included two of the photos from it.

The first is subtitled " Mark1-A Gun Camera mounted on standard Lewis Gun". The second subtitled "Mechanism of gun camera, showing Geneva movement and shutter mechanism, which automatically continues to take phots as long as trigger is depressed". hope this all helps - let me know. John G.