40 mm Bofors AA guns made in GB and US

[Crewman]

Hello Stellan!

Originally posted by Stellan Bojerud
A number of states aquired rights for licence production. Austria (Staatsfabrik) 1935, Belgium (Fabrique Nationale) 1936, Czechoslovakia (Skoda) 1938, Finland (State factory) 1937, France 1937, Great Britain 1937, Hungary (Mavag) 1935, Norway (Kongsberg) 1937, Poland (Starachowice) 1935.

Full name of the Polish Starachowice-based manufacturer is: Starachowickie Zak³ady Górnicze SA.

Originally posted by Stellan Bojerud
I know that 406 guns were made in Poland of which 168 were exported to Great Britain, Netherlands and Rumania, but I do not know how many guns to each nation.

The figures of these Bofors guns are the problem in Poland as well. According to various Polish data:

78 guns – ordered by the Polish Government in Sweden
414 guns – manufactured in Poland
168 guns – exported by Poland
358 guns – the number of guns that served in the Polish Army in September 1939


Sources:

Adolf Stachula
Dylematy polskiej artylerii przeciwlotniczej okresu miêdzywojennego
(The Dilemmas of the Polish Anti-Aircraft Artillery of Inter-War Period)
Przegl¹d Wojsk Lotniczych i Obrony Powietrznej
(The Air Force and Air Defense Review)
Poznañ, September 2002

Piotr Rozwadowski
Polskie armaty przeciwlotnicze 75 mm wz. 36/37 oraz 40 mm Bofors
(Polish 75mm and 40mm Anti-Aircraft Guns Models 36/37 and Bofors)
Dom Wydawniczy Bellona, Warsaw 1998
ISBN 83-11-08906-X

Marek J. Aszyk
Uzbrojenie Wojska II Rzeczpospolitej. Armata przeciwlotnicza kal. 40 mm wz. 36
(Armament of the 2nd Republic. Bofors 40mm Anti-Aircraft Gun Model 36)
http://www.wojsko18-39.internetdsl.p...ien/opl40.html



Polish Bofors 40mm guns wreckage pictorial after 1939 Campaign