automatic rifle
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19940001-791
- Event 1914-1919 First World War
- Affiliation --
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Artist / Maker / Manufacturer
Huot-Ross Rifle Company
Ross Rifle Company - Date Made 1917
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Tools and equipment for science and technology
- Sub-category Armament, firearm
- Department Arms and Technology
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1917/01/01
- Latest 1917/12/31
- Brand Name / Model Huot Automatic Rifle
- Inscription 5; ROSS RIFLE CO CANADA PATENTED
- Pattern Name Huot-Ross
- Materials Steel, Walnut
- Service Component British Army
- Measurements Height 20.0 cm, Length 120.2 cm, Width 15.5 cm
- Related activity Machine-Gunner
- Caption Huot-Ross Automatic Rifle
- Additional Information Joseph Alphonse Hout established the Huot-Ross Rifle Company. Huot, a former employee of the Ross Rifle Company, converted the Canadian-manufactured Ross rifle into a fully automatic light machine-gun. The weapon only reached the prototype stage and was never mass produced.