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Manufacture d'Armes de l'Etat (M.A.E.)

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Hello there,

I'm Kristof Verjans, a Belgian bayonet collector and currently working on a book about FN bayonets. During the First World War a lot of Belgians fled to the UK and plenty of them to Birmingham.

My bookshelf contains a few books that write about these Belgians in exile but mostly about the production of artillery shells. Does anybody of you have information, or can tell me where to find it, about the Belgian arms factory that was founded in Birmingham? It was called the M.A.E. for "Manufacture d'Armes de l'Etat".

What interesses me is general history of that facitlity, production numbers, staff information, ... to be included in my book.
Thanks in advance,
Kristof Verjans
www.bajonet.be
 
Hello and welcome Kristof to this wonderful forum:)Mau-reece
 
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Kristof just clicked on your Link and it is a foreign language is it Flemish:boohoo:Mau-reece
 
Thank you Graham is Kristof a neighbor of yours:tongue2:Mau-reece
 


Kristof welkom, dit is het beste en meest vriendelijke forum op deze planeet en ik ben zekers dat iemand hier jou zal kunnen helpen in u zoektocht. De mensen hier zijn zou vriendelijk en hulpvaardig.

Als ik meer tijd heb zal ik kijken naar jou website, als je hulp nodig heb om iets in het Engels te vertalen stuur mij een IM.

Birmingham is mijn geboorte stad.
Graham.
 
Mossy said:
Thank you Graham is Kristof a neighbor of yours:tongue2:Mau-reece
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Mossy I've not yet found out where Kristof lives, it is quite possible that I don't live far from from him as Flanders isn't all that big.

Graham.
 
Thanks Graham i used to talk to a bloke in Denmark on my Boxing forum and used the...translator i found it very good:offtopic: Mau-reece
 
Hello,
thanks for the answers. Actually I live in Liege, in the French speaking part of Belgium, but I was born and lived for 28 years in Flanders (near Tongeren).

The EGB mark on the rifle is for "Epreuve du Gouvernement Belge" for 'proofing by the Belgian Government.

Does somebody know of an historian or museum that specialises in the Birmingham arms industry?
Kristof
 
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