M.A.N. Saurer GmbH MG 08/15
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See DealThe MG 08/15 was the standard light machine-gun of the German Army during the First World War. Its origins lay in a wish to respond to the British deployment of the Lewis Gun on the Western Front. The MG 08/15 was fired from a rigid bipod and was fed from a 100 round belt carried in a drum. The decision to base the new weapon on an existing gun certainly aided production, which commenced in late 1916. By the end of the
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war 130,000 MG 08/15s had been produced - compared with 72,000 MG 08s. However, as a weapon the 08/15 proved to be an unhappy compromise. It was light in name only (22Kg with ammunition belt and water) and the central position of the bipod made it difficult to shoot accurately. The MG 08/15 was made by several manufacturers and one of them was M.A.N. Saurer GmbH who manufactured arround 11,000 of them. In 1915 Anton von Rieppel succeeded after long negotiations with the Swiss entrepreneur Adolph Saurer to found a joint venture company. The joint venture of automobile manufacturing company Adolph Saurer and Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG was registered on 21 June 1915 as "LKWwerke MAN-Saurer" in the Nuremberg Commercial Register. The MAN-Saurer GmbH first produced trucks in Lindau on Lake Constance and from November 1915 began the relocation of production to Nuremberg, which was completed in 1916. In 1917 they were also making the MG 08/15 water cooled machine gun. The MAN company later made only trucks and busses and it is active manufacturer even today.M.A.N. Saurer GmbH MG 08/15 For Sale
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