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Post by britplumber on Jan 27, 2011 21:29:56 GMT 1
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Post by crash520 on Apr 1, 2012 10:41:57 GMT 1
there is one in Australia that I know of, its Italian.
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Post by woodsy on Apr 1, 2012 21:38:25 GMT 1
Thanks Crash. Is that the one that was in the Australian Antique Arms auction last year?
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Post by crash520 on Apr 4, 2012 12:51:57 GMT 1
Rod,
It was in an auction last year but not the AAA.
BR
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Post by dod762 on Jul 7, 2012 9:33:53 GMT 1
From memory I understand Beretta was contracted to convert many of these into a more practical form which they did with the 1918 SMG (Not the 1918/30) They used the bodies along with a new a trigger, timber stock and folding bayonet, designs of which were similar to the current service rifles of the time. A funny looking SMG, looking more like a carbine than a SMG. Believed to be the first practical SMG delivered to troops (a month or so ahead of the German effort of the same year) I handled one a few years back (Beretta 1918), I believe Lithgow SAF Museum may be the current owner.
Happy to be corrected or have the blanks filled in.
Cheers,
DOD
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Post by woodsy on Jul 7, 2012 22:30:26 GMT 1
What you say is correct. Most of the VP's were broken up into individual receivers and converted to conventional SMG's, some by Beretta as the M1918 and some by the VP company as the OVP. Some of these modified guns were still in use in WW2, particularly the OVP.
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