Machine gun production, World War II. Irish female worker using a lathe to produce a Bren light machine gun at a munitions factory. This machine gun,

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Machine gun production, World War II. Irish female worker using a lathe to produce a Bren light machine gun at a munitions factory. This machine gun, used by British forces from the 1930s onwards, was mostly manufactured at the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield, London. This photograph, from the British Ministry of Information, dates from around 1942 or 1943.

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Photo credit: © LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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