Mk VII

Roger Corman, who has died aged 98, with a Thompson during the filming of Bloody Mama, based loosely on the Ma Barker story. The enlarged hole in the end of the Cutts betrays the blank-firing choke incorporated in it.

quality is not great but the reproduction print may be all that survives.

Here ya go ...

Won't get much protection from that liner-only helmet.

Daub your Thompson you must.

Pardon Us was a take-off of the Wallace Beery movie The Big House, and the antagonist looks rather similar to Wallace Beery. The same gun, with the rather obvious attachment to make it work with blanks, seems to have been used in both.

I've got one of these. They are usually rather tight fit. They come in 'magazine fitted' and 'no magazine' varieties and the stock system does not appear to have differentiated between them.

Forward grip looks a bit slab-sided to me. Sling swivel on the stock (GI one?), but no other way of fixing a sling.

Some information on the contractors Nicholls & Janes, who are described as making ammunition boxes and special boxes during the war. http://www.nandj.org.uk/

Stephen Hayes was the IRA Chief of Staff who fell under suspicion, probably wrongly, of being an informer and was given an 'enhanced' interrogation until he 'confessed'. During an unguarded moment he escaped, and dashed down the road into a Guard barracks where he claimed asylum. His transcribed confession was given wide publicity within the Republican movement.

The Free State Army would have got hold of that lot, they needed all they could get at that time.

Let's hope somebody steps up. Doug Richardson couldn't find anyone ready to do it.

Notice the oversized hole in the fake compensator on these guns and the Vickers (not Browning) behind.

It's been on sale before, some years ago, I think I saw it.

Does it come with a multitone horn that plays 'Dixie'?