FIRST NATIONAL BANK KNIGHT & BYRON HUXLEY, WILKINSON; BUILDING CHICAGO June % th LO4A SLD Ho. 160,1/ Mr. J« ET. LOUIS ORDNANCE Dear Mr. W4liiamer Browning Gates Jette & Co./A}. Bate ae Willienms, PRICK ALJUSTHPR? BOARD, DISTRICT OFFICE 3663 Lindell Boulevard, ft. Louis, Missouri. Subject: Renegotiation with J... week, last On in 17, under 1 have stated page Gun", operated recoil first the fngland previously hed operated recoil Ws. for Utah, In connection with the report whieh I sent you I now have had a chance to communicete with the as applied has only characterized the Maxim eune, On principles, thet ami the Browning 20, the « gun this mechanisms guns "Light that find I now produced to the recoil page Browning that John M, gun. as Machine Operates "Recoil heading the produced @ Mr, embodying is be te understood and operation and Maxim certain distinguished Gun made be shoulé changes Messrs, Browning and find that a few in certein of the statements mace. Machine & em, Browning which from Mount*® referred to was not a development invoiving a compiete gun, but was one relating to an improved cooling mechanism and also a new demountable barrel. This development ¢id not undertake to fulfill all of the speeification requirements dentified in the request of April 1, i940, issued by the These remaracs aiso apply to the patent Chief of Ordnance. list on page 36. On page 24, line 6, change "1933" to o<-1927-—<+.» in this connection I aw sdvised that if @ patent hac filed it would have issued in all probability around or 1933 been i932