Comments by "51WCDodge" (@51WCDodge) on "Maxim "Prototype": The First Practical Machine Gun" video.

  1. Maxim was a thoughtful type. He did warn his neighbours in West Norwood, a southern suburb of London, before he fired his guns on test. He had a sideline of designing fairground rides to keep the wolf from the door.
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  2.  @jean-lucperez3296  By complete chance on our Remeberance Sunday , I ended up at Bordon Manor in Bexley, which has a plaque to Maxim on it. There he built and apparently flew ,a Steam powered aircraft in 1894. It crashed on third flight and he lost intrest.
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  3. Far better than Leeds. Over Three thousand Exhibits! is Leeds boast- What they dont tell you is some 2,500 are the bayonets on the wall up the central staircase. Where as Portsmouth! After Fort Nelson, if you still have the energy, The Dockyard , HMS Victory , Warrior, the Mary Roase and Explosion- The musuem of naval firpower , with a collection of small arms from the High Seas fleet! Go do a story on that place.
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  4. Can't have been popular with the neighbours in West Norwood though
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  5. The original range was Maxim's back garden in West Norwood, a suburb of London. He did warn the neighbours though.
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  6.  @shugo541  Not to mention straight of the motorway into the car park and the bus fare included in parking. Brilliant idea.
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  7. West Norwood cemetry.
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  8. Hilair Bellock, though he was half French, The Modern Traveller.
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  9. Allegedally Maxim was told if you want to make money design a way for the Europeans to kill themselves more efficiently. Thank God for the English Channel.
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