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Gentlemen:
In the course of researching SMLE rifle buckets I googled a document called The Madsen Machine Rifle, which provides fascinating reading and extols the advantages of the weapon over both the Lewis and the Hotchkiss, which was the principal machine gun for British-Canadian-Indian cavalry of WWI.
Larry

Do you have a link for that Larry?

Hi Pat:
I just stumbled on it with google search of madsen machine gun and a whole bunch of stuff came up, including some utube material of not only a madsen but a lewis being fired. fascinating stuff. compared to the lewis, you can easily see why the madsen was favored but then the trials were conducted in 1918, so it may never have seen service. I cant remember ever reading about it at least in Canadian or British service in ww1. The Hotchkiss was the cavalry machinegun.
larry.

He may mean the PDF document attached to the FORGOTTEN WEAPONS page on this piece.

Here's the cached version -

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... =firefox-a

From
http://www.forgottenweapons.com/light-m ... chine-gun/