Bren light machine gun, 17,500 produced from 1940 to 1945.Vickers machine gun, 12,500 Mk I, Mk V, and Mk XXI produced from 1929 to 1943.Short Magazine Lee Enfield, at least 640,000 produced, with variants including Mk III and Mk IV, from 1912 to 1945.Products Military Īlongside the weapons listed below, the factory also produced bayonets, components, barrels, and magazines as well as repairing, modifying, and rechambering weapons. The museum sees 9,000 annual visitors and is a big draw to the city of Lithgow. In 2019, the museum was placed on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register which lists influential collections and documents considered key to Australia's history.
Īs a separate entity, not owned or run by the current owners of the factory, the volunteer-run Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum is located at the front of the disused section of site and has a large collection of military and civilian firearms manufactured at the factory and elsewhere. ADI Lithgow is now owned by Thales Australia and continues to manufacture the F88 Austeyr rifle and F89 Minimi currently used by the Australian military. The factory was first "corporatised" as Australian Defence Industries by the Hawke Government, then later sold in 2006. The Lithgow Small Arms Factory was known to produce their single shot models 1A and 1B as well as their Model 12 repeater under the Slazenger brand during the 1960s. During World War II, production expanded to include Vickers machine guns, Bren guns and, postwar, branched out into sporting goods (including civilian firearms and golf clubs), tools, sewing machines, (from the mid-1950s) the F1 submachine gun, L1A1 SLR, KAL1 general purpose infantry rifle prototypes and similar products. Opened on 8 June 1912, the factory initially manufactured SMLE III rifles (and Pattern 1907 bayonets) for the Australian military during World War I. Lithgow Small Arms Factory in 1910s~1920s
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