This booklet contains instructions for stripping the gun; notes on its mechanism; its care and cleaning; the likely causes of jams and stoppages; minor repairs; spare parts; ammunition and aiming. This booklet is a facsimile reprint of the copy held in the War Office Library and contains amendments and additions typed and pasted into the original.
R.A.F. Instructional Notes on the Lewis Gun, 1918
£4.50
Issued in April 1918 – the very month that the R.A.F. was founded out of the Royal Flying Corps – this booklet is an instructional manual on the use of the American-made Lewis Gun, which was fast becoming the standard British machine gun of the Great War – in the air as well as on the ground.