Sterling Armaments Company
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Sterling Armaments Company was an arms manufacturer based in Dagenham, famous for manufacturing the L2A3 (the 'Sterling submachine gun'), AR18 and SAR-87 assault rifles and parts of Jaguar cars. The company went bankrupt in 1988.
During WWII, engineers George Lanchester and George William Patchett oversaw the manufacture of the Lanchester sub-machine gun. Patchett afterwards went on to design the Patchett machine carbine which, after a competitive trial in 1947, was adopted by the British Army in 1953 as the L2A1 Sterling sub-machine gun, replacing the Sten gun. The weapon was later upgraded to the L2A3, the highly successful Sterling Mk IV.
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- The Guns of Dagenham - Collector Grade Publications,Canada (5 Jan 1996), ISBN 0889352046
- Last Enfield - SA80: The Reluctant Rifle, Steve Raw, R.Blake Stevens, ISBN 0889353034
- Military Small Arms of the 20th Century, 4th Edition, by Ian V. Hogg and John Weeks, ISBN 0-910676-28-3,Ca 1981
- AK56 magazine, December 2006
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