Lot-8876-C-3: WWI: American Expeditionary Forces:  Weapons.   Browning Machine Gun, 1918 model, water cooled, and called “Browning Heavy Machine Gun.”   This gun is fed from a belt of 250 rounds of cartridges.  Most important features are endurance and simplicity of mechanism, rendering manufacturing easy.  In a government test, 39,500 shots were fired without a break.  At another test, 20,000 shots were fired in 48 minutes, 16 seconds, without malfunction and only three stoppages, each due to a defective cartridge.  The gun weighs 34 pounds, with the water jacket filled.    U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph.   Courtesy of the Library of Congress.  (2017/02/17).
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