. . "The Charlton Automatic Rifle was a fully automatic conversion of the Lee\u2013Enfield rifle, designed by New Zealander Philip Charlton in 1941 to act as a substitute for the Bren and Lewis gun light machine guns which were in chronically short supply at the time.The original Charlton Automatic Rifles were converted from obsolete Lee\u2013Metford and Magazine Lee\u2013Enfield rifles dating from as early as the Boer War, and were intended for use as a semi-automatic rifle with the full-automatic capability retained for emergency use. "@en . "7257.6"^^ . . "1.1303"^^ . . "Charlton Automatic Rifle"@en . .