BRITISH MACHINE GUN
                                     CARTRIDGES

                                         by Barry A. Temple

                    Introduction                                                                  v
Chapter 1    The Search for a Machine Gun                                     1
Chapter 2    The Gatling Gun Cartridges                                        22
Chapter 3    Machine Gun Trials, 1879-1880                                 34
Chapter 4    Experimental 0.45-inch Machine Gun Cartridges       47
Chapter 5    Service 0.45-inch GG Ball Cartridges                          57
Chapter 6    0.45-inch M-H Rifle and MG Ball Cartridges            65
Chapter 7    The 0.4-inch Machine Gun Ball Cartridge                  69
Chapter 8    0.45-inch Cordite MG Ball Cartridges                       72
Chapter 9    Blank Cartridges for Machine Guns                            81
Chapter 10  Dummy Cartridges for Machine Guns                        90
Chapter 11  The Identification of Machine Gun Cartridges            99
Chapter 12  Inspection of Machine Gun Ammunition                  106
                    Abbreviations                                                             109
                    Bibliography                                                              110
                    Index                                                                           111