Lithgow! Australia's FN FAL / SLR Reference Book, 2020, Hardcover, *NEW*

FN FAl Reference Book, 120 Pages with 300 Color Images, Hardcover, in *NEW* condition.

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Produced & published in 2020 by Chuck Tyroler, Kevin Adams & Andy T. Aussie.

Released April 2020, Lithgow! Australia's Self Loading Rifle is an incredible new reference volume focused on the unique rifles held in the Lithgow (Australia) Small Arms Factory Museum. An absolute must for FALnatics, Fabrique National collectors, and Australian military historians. 47 individual rifles are covered, presenting function, design, unique elements, and outstanding questions for future research.

Background: For over a century Lithgow Small Arms Factory has independently supplied Australian Defence with indigenously manufactured small arms. This includes Vickers machine gun, SMLE, BREN, SLR, Steyr AUG inspired FR88, and the MINIMI (M249). The independent Museum, located on the grounds of the factory curates an incredible collection of arms documenting the history of design, development, and production of these arms. Many are to be found in no other collections.

This book will cover the following:

• Foreign rifles sent for evaluation from FN, South Africa, Canada, UK, etc.
• Trials Rifles
• Sectionalized Rifles
• Target Rifle development
• L2A1 Heavy Barrel SLR development
• Prototypes and Test Mules
• Dual left-right charging Experimental models
• 1st SLR made by Lithgow
• 200,000th SLR made by Lithgow
• "The Bitch" - unauthorized short version converted to select fire
• Poyer export specimens that never made it to USA
• FN G Series
• Canadian Arsenals Limited C1 and C2
• UK Trials X8E5
• The truth about the Plum colored South African R1
• Plus 13 pages dedicated to the the last factory SLR Heavy Barrel design: the rare X3 F2A2