Was the Churchill ovaunda an indication that Churchill was "innovative" in the technical as well as the entrepreneurial sense? Seems to me many of the guns&money men also have their name on patents. If you had a fresh approach or a new idea but a draftsmen took the words out of the air and made them flesh with dimensions, geometry and material specs and a mechanic built a prototype, would you be any less responsible for setting the process in motion? Isn't it really a question of which "innovations" are so obviously superior, utilitarian and economical as to rise to nearly universal usage and become the norm? Westley Richards droplocks are not exactly falling off the gunracks in this neck of the woods.
As for the little guns in big hands syndrome, MacIntosh also regales us with the story of a large friend who shot a subminny 28b for the same reason he married a tiny woman: just couldn't believe either would go bang!
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