Sten Gun Production - 1942 (1942)
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Various shots of the arms factory showing all stages of a sten gun production. Mainly women work on benches and in assembling. They load the guns onto truck in front of the factory.
Various shots of women welding using protective glasses.
Various shots of the men on the firing range testing sten guns.
More shots of the workers, mostly women, making sten guns.
FILM ID:1695.06
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Women to be proud of and should be remembered.
Thank you for uploading
I love the way they bring the guns out by wheelbarrows!!!
This was filmed at Sterling Engineering Works at Rainham Road South, Dagenham. The buildings are now selling plumbers equipment but retain the Sterling Works name.
Funny because Sten is basically a pipe.
A remarkable little weapon. I used them and loved them.....Those women building them were the unsung heroes......
What was so heroic?
@@wufongtanwufong5579 Some free advice!! Don’t be a jerk...
Anyone else notice at 1:06 the STENs being passed into the truck have the magazine wells pointing DOWN rather then to the LEFT? (Trivia alert!) Even with a magazine inserted, there was a 'release switch' on the STEN which allowed the magazine and well to be rotated to the 'down' position. While the weapon could not be fired with the magazine in that position, it made it much more convenient for Paratroopers to carry the weapon with a loaded magazine inserted during a jump. Hit the ground, rotate the magazine and you are ready to shoot. The STEN may have been inexpensive (not cheap) but some real thought went into its design.
The magazine housing cannot be rotated with a magazine fitted...
@@victuff9765 Admittedly I've only handled and fired one STEN (legally owned by a Class 3 FFL dealer) but on that particular gun the housing could indeed be rotated with a magazine inserted. It is possible the original design did not have that feature but later versions incorporated it as an 'improvement'. I'll have to do some research on that.
@@tomjustis7237 In order to feed the round into the chamber, the magazine feed lip would have to be inside the receiver tube. My guess is this would make it just about impossible for the magazine well to be rotated with a magazine inserted in the weapon unless there was a position on the magazine well where the magazine is just slightly short of “full insertion”. Others more knowledgeable might know better than I do.
The bolt is held in the open position when not being fired so not in the way of the magazine being rotated.
Later, mk stens could be rotated with the mag in place cheers
Everybody comments that their grandmother’s made stun guns. I love my wife very much, she’s tremendous in many ways. So why, in this modern day, why.. dosnt my wife know how to make an inexpensive machine gun ? Didn’t her mother pass this along ?
Absolutely stunning, thank you for sharing. The toob is a remarkable firearm. So simple, yet so deadly.
My grandmother made stens
My grandpa still makes them
Legend
Cool.
@@Kronik360 That's fantastic.
@@Kronik360 would love him to show me how lol
A whole legion of ladies doing every task in the process, & cranking out Stens by the wagon load. For every "Rosie the Riveter" building planes, there was a "Machine Gun Mary" building arms for the boys in the field. Imagine having a comrade praising his weapon, & being able to say, "Yeah, my girlfriend/wife/mom/sister probably helped build that. I'll give her your regards.". :)
['40's Brit Kid] : _"Mum! I want a sub-machine gun!"_
[Ol' Ma Britannia] : _"We've got sub-machine guns at home."_
I was at work last week cleaning out an old house to get it ready to sell,while crawling through the attic I found a stock for a sten hanging on a nail,pretty exciting we searched the entire house but didn't find any more parts just a stock 🙁
Back in 1972 my father worked for a realtor that bought old houses repaired and sold them, in one of the houses a young man found a m2 carbine in a wall , they didn’t think much about it and the owner told the boy he could have it, until a Korean war vet and my father a ww-2 vet told them it was a full auto , local gunsmith with a class 3 bought it, last i heard a country music star in Nashville ended up with it . Of course the local rumor mill got out that it was a Tommy gun but it wasn’t .
Damn
Nice to see the STEN being held and fired the _correct_ way at 2:09! Amazing how many contemporary firearm ‘experts’ on YT erroneously hold the gun by the magazine (a sure way to precipitate malfunction) ‘coz that’s how they do it in the movies. ;)
I noticed that as well. Every time I see the "Hollywood" method of firing a STEN I cringe!
Would love to get my hands on a freshly made sten gun.
me too…or even better the Sterling which came out after and was better built and more reliable…but yeah i would not say no to one of these
There you go kids, that's how your great Gran helped to keep your freedom, bloody great wasn't she?
How, by building the worse sub machine gun of the war?
@@wufongtanwufong5579 Sten guns are proven to be better defence weapons then the butt end of broken beer bottles
@@wufongtanwufong5579 That's why both ther Germans and Chinese made copies of them!
@@johnhodges8264 More because they were cheap than good
@@wufongtanwufong5579 go and see hickcock 45 using one on UTUBE, you would not want to be on the wrong of it.
1:53 Arc welding with hood, no gloves.
@Grey Dominguez Yes those were much different times.
Nevermind...please disregard
test firing with no ear or eye protection. The good old days! :p
Amazing work!
We tam sklej sie
The Stens or the video lol
Kudos to the women in Britain and the United States who stepped up to answer the call for help as the men went off to war.
However, just a couple corrections. Stick welding, not oxy/acetylene. Sten fired about 650 rounds per minute, not 2000. And, with a 9mm you would be lucky to hit anything past 100 yards/meters.
Thanks for uploading this
This is excellent
Brilliant.
It may have been a 'cheap' weapon compared to others, but that's still some fairly heavy duty machinery involved in the production!
One good reason banning firearms will never, ever work. These things can be fabricated very easily by anyone who can operate a dremel tool and a metal lathe or less.
@@geodes6722 Even easier to make a slam fire shotgun! With some fairly insignificant chemistry skills it's even possible to produce your own ammo.
@@24934637 Only problem is Only a huge industrial machine makes brass ammo casings starting as a thin brass wire, in an apocalypse situation you’d have to use paper cartridge and turn it into a single shot
@@geodes6722 I'm building a sten-type tubular gun right now. It's not the hardest thing I've ever done but it's difficult and also requires some special tooling like a tapered reamer to chamber the barrel for the 9x19 luger cartridge. And if you want a rifled barrel you'll probably need a lathe. Everything else can be done with welder, angle grinder, drill, and files. Making the magazine is the hardest part
@@tannerlane9669 i think in emergencys you can make ammo on an lathe but its lot of work with little output
They are a great simple economical design . Inexpensive to make and reliable
They were notorious for jamming the machine gun, thus making the gun useless special forces did not like using them .They were called plumbers thumb or Woolworths because it was cheap to make .
@@romanchomenko2912 Unless your willing to stand in front of one when I pull the trigger then shut up
@@romanchomenko2912 much like the LIA1…which was nicknamed ‘The Politician’….the government paid too much for it and it did not work
@@romanchomenko2912orrection : The STEN were called the "Plumber's nightmare," The "Woolworth's gun" that you're talking about is The Liberator. And also, The Jamming you're talking about is not a problem of the gun itself, jamming means the magazine spring was weak and can't push the bullets with enough force. This was fixed in the "STEN Mk II" which was the one showed in the video(STEN MkII was more skinny looking than Mk I) Jamming also won't happen if you hold it the right way. Holding the magazine was wrong since the recoil will bend the mag, making the mag spring weak. Hold the barrel, It's thick enough that you will only feel warmth and not burn your hand.
I think the M3 submachine gun had this beat for sheer manufacturing simplicity but the Sten could obviously be produced in small work shops far more easily than the M3 which explains why there were so many copies of it.
The MK2 (shown in this film) was designed exactly for that -- using "non-war" production capacity at a thousand small workshops around the country.
The MK3 was closer to the M3 grease gun -- two stamped halves welded together. It was developed by Tri-Ang, which made stamped tinplate toys.
The Fallout pipe gun before Fallout (or computer games in general) were a thing.
Women played such an important role in Britain in WW2, everyone had a part to do back then.
Gee, if you had that truck full of these STENs here in the USA before December of 1968 and had registered all of them during the Amnesty before the Gun Control Act of 1968 took affect, how much would they be worth today? First, we will discount the truck. Second we must estimate how many are in the truck as you cannot see the forward portion of the truck's STEN rack. Conservatively, I estimate there are 38 STENs per layer. There are 18 rows of STENs, 9 per side. This equals to a total of 630 submachineguns. I'd estimate a realistic price for a fully transferable STEN here at $8,000@. This equals to 5 million, 40 thousand US Dollars! But, I would not recommend trying to sell them all off at once. Add another 20 Grand. PS: I noted the lady handing the guns to the man in the truck with the mag housings in either position.
Build machine guns during the day then come home and make dinner. That's when women were real women.
Oh shut up
yes. That's their job. Making tea for husbands. Happy days long past when women served as slaves. Today is full of woke people who think women are humans.
As a American just wanna say am a huge fan of the sten MK2 it's the AK 47 of smgs one day I will own one
I wish you luck in obtaining one, pal.
@@mysticmystery7300he doesn't need luck, he only need $8,000 or so
You even can make it at home if you want
Anyone notice these where stick welded ..yet people say dont ..
Wow, those guns were transported in an open lorry!
Well here's a new sight. The new British submachine gun that is entering service with our army. Nicknamed the "Sten" it's been put together by women who have been specially trained to handle equipment that was previously only able to be assembled by men. And look at how pretty they are as they assemble them! Certainly something worth fighting for boys? They are taught in the art of oxy acetylene welding which uses oxygen as a fuel. Just another example of British ingenuity
Now it's on to the testing. Only the finest quality British steel made in Sheffield is used and the quality checks are second to none.
The sten gun is made in 9mm calibre which is sure to knock Jerry into a hat.
The "sten" can fire over 2000 every minute which is faster than the German Spandau and it is capable of hitting targets up to 3 miles away.
Each round is made of British lead, and it's a rare square head that will be setting up again after being hit by one of these!
Manufactured by famous firearm companies such as Woolworths.... The"sten" is entering service now, and is already recognised across the world as the finest super heavy machine gun now or in the future....
..now, if we can teach our High School girls to make STENS as part of the curriculum..that Will keep them from mischief..for a while and turn them to patriotic, responsible citizens..
Hahaha
Keep the boys in line too, you don't stand up or mess around on a girl with a burp gun. :)
A girl who can make stens is my kind of girl
Интересная система укладки груза в грузовике...Почему не в деревянных ящиках ??Видимо был дефицит древесины?!
Simple fast production, I would doubt many young women would work in munitions factories too hot, heavy and hard these days.
Nice work
What an awesome job!
Feelings proud for ladies
No ear protection at the test range
In those days, none on the artillery range, either.
@@vincentmueller3717 *I KNOW I'M ONE OF THEM* ( deaf now ;-))
Thanks to all the Woman in the world
Just drop a couple of hundred of at my house.
Can i order airdrop coordinates?
Great no guards no health and safety rings on fingers etc a bit deference now 😀
What a magical job test firing the s t e n gun and get paid a job I’d really look forward to instead of dreading!.
God, imagine the amount of pennies you would need to pay for all them Sten Guns!
When your wife becomes a better gunsmith than you
This Factory kicks ass cuz there's lots of chicks
Bicycle factory
few pretty girls made mine.
Real feminists
So that's why they jammed so often!
The issue with Stens was the magazine, trigger and stock, which were fixed in the Sterling SMG.
The females were powerful and now 😅
A Leftist's nightmare ....
@Grey Dominguez where is it that that is posible? Here, it takes a Federal background check with fingerprints, several months wait, and storage requirements. A boat licence can be got at Walmart with a photo ID.
Define "civilian".
@Grey Dominguez
Nope. Look up the definition of "militia"....
@Grey Dominguez
Nonsense.
Why is this a leftist's nightmare? The Russians were doing exactly the same, with even less regard for safety. So were the Germans for that matter.
When I consider how spoiled rotten and ungrateful the kids (and adults) are today I mourn the greatest generation.
All that effort and blood to free Europe just become more tyrannical.
Make a cool wood handle girlie
You even can make it at home if you want