OK here's your chance to impress us all with your worldly knowledge.

Mate, thats an old gold stamp mill on its side God I don't know about you sometimes, you see guns everywhere

It's a .45/70 used for cape buffalo in the old days.

Not even close so no cigar.

Hint,It's a Lever Action.

Actually its a little known about gun built jointly by Mr Marlin and Mr Gatlin in 1876. These two gents built this thing but had a falling out over Mr Gatlins wife (aparently she and Mr Marlin used to slide across the tiles together covered with gun lube ) and they went their seperate ways, the rest is history. Funny thing is that Mr Winchester was going to be the third member of the partnership but didn't like the idea of a lever action


Hows that

That looks a bit like some of the anti-ambush devices that were used by Rhodesians in the 70's. Those were attached to vehicles, though.

On the other hand, it could be some sort of a "Punt gun", used for shooting waterfowl, but probably not...? Beats me.

Oooops, you had already revealed the truth. I only looked at the picture.

A lever action printing press?

Its a 1" Nordenfeldt Naval Mounted - c.1880's. It was used primarily for anti-torpedo work , and fired all four barrels at once . Loading was by means of the lift-up gate at the rear. Rate of fire was not high , certainly less than the 400 rpm available in the single barreled smaller calibre version but the firepower from 4 barrels at once was impressive .

The cartridge lived on as the 1" Aiming Rifle Sub-Caliber for artillery pieces and is often seen at gunshows.

Enough detail for you ER/FC ?

We have a winner!

Loading was via a hopper on top,long since rusted away.Nordenfelts were available from two barrels up to 10.

There was even a two barreled version at a park in Bundaberg right next to the Zoo.The lever is intact on this one.

Thorsden Nordenfelt was a Swede who went one to become the father of the modern Submarine.Lots of good reading if you do a Google.

Well done my stumpy-winged flightless bird.

Actually my first guess was a Palmkrantz , but the shape of the front barrel support gave it away and besides , it was pretty unlikely that an obscure machinegun from Europe would end up in a park in Oz - New Zealand maybe , but very unlikely for you guys . NZ seemed to be a dumping ground for the rest of the worlds military surplus , but we had a need for such items to wage war with our indigenous inhabitants of the day - you guys used to hunt yours at the weekends for sport ....

The most important question. Do any of them still work?

Do you mean the guns or Easy Rollin's ?

Muzza,
You're right about one thing,NZ was a dumping ground.
...for all types of "Le Miserables".