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Old 13-04-09, 15:36
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It may interest you to know that the Canadian Army is still using the Browning Hi Powers manufactured by the John Inglis Co (here in Toronto) during World War II... I have no doubt that were we still using Brens we'd be carrying our own wartime Inglis-manufactured ones as well - quality goes a long way these days, I reckon!
In fact, when I wrote "Inglis Diamond", in 2001 the Cdn Forces still had 19,000 of these in storage. Since then the static inventory has dropped to about 13,000 with many on issue in the Sandbox and many more cannabilized for maintenance spares.
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