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The STEN (or Sten gun) was a family of British submachine guns chambered in 9×19mm and used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and the Korean War. They were notable for having a simple design and very low production cost making them effective insurgency weapons for resistance groups.
STEN is an acronym, from the names of the weapon's chief designers, Major Reginald V. Shepherd and Harold Turpin, and EN for Enfield. Over 4 million Stens in various versions were made in the 1940s.
The Sten emerged while Britain was engaged in the Battle of Britain, facing invasion by Germany. The army was forced to replace weapons lost during the evacuation from Dunkirk while expanding at the same time. Prior to 1941 (and even later) the British were purchasing all the Thompson submachine guns they could from the United States, but these did not begin to meet demand. The American entry into the war at the end of 1941 placed an even bigger demand on the facilities making Thompsons. In order to rapidly equip a sufficient fighting force to counter the Axis threat, the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, was commissioned to produce an alternative.
Sten is the first book in Chris Bunch and Allan Cole's The Sten Adventures.
Karl Sten is a young boy growing up on an industrial factory world called Vulcan. The organization ruling Vulcan is known the Company. Citizen's inside the corporate dominated society are stratified into Execs(leaders and politicians), Techs (technicians and skilled labor), and Migs or migrant unskilled workers.The Company recruited Sten's parents, Amos and Freed Sten using false advertisement.The company uses different techniques to keep the Migs on Vulcan.
After Sten's family is killed in an industrial cover-up initiated by Vulcan's CEO, Baron Thoresen, Sten rebels against the laws of Vulcan and escapes to live on his own in the background of the factory world. For several years he runs with the Delinqs, a band of young outlaws that have also rejected the ideals of The Company.
He saves an off-worlder, Ian Mahoney, from a security team that was tracking him. Mahoney is the head of Imperial Intelligence and is trying to gather information on a special project Baron Thoresen is running, called Project Bravo. Mahoney offers Sten and his gang a chance to leave Vulcan if they can get the information he needs.
Sten is a Scandinavian male given name. Literally meaning "rock" or "cliff", it derives from a literal translation of Peter into the North Germanic languages.
Notable individuals with the name include
In fiction:
Notable individuals with the family name Sten include
Låtlista 01.Johnny Horton - North to Alaska 02.Lefty Frizzell - Cigarettes And Coffee Blues 1958 Vinyl(1) 03.Don Gibson - OH LONESOME ME 1958 04.Bobby Bare - 500 Miles Away From Home 05.Frankie Laine - Rawhide 06.Dave Dudley - Six Days on the Road 06.Wanda Jackson Mean Mean Man 07.Webb Pierce - No Love Have I 08.George Jones - white lightning 09.Bob Luman - I'm Gonna Write A Song 10.John DLoudermilk - The Guitar Player (Her And Him) ,1963 11.Eddie Bond & The Stompers - Flip Flop Mama 12.Faron Young - Hello Walls 13.Carl Perkins - Gone, Gone, Gone 14.Marty Robbins - Five Brothers 15.Leroy Van Dyke - Walk On By 16.The Hunters - Teen Scene (1960)
Sten Berglinds resa från "raggarkille" till julvärd
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Bilar, 50-tal & rock'n'roll Dagens filmtips: Bilar, 50-tal & rock'n'roll. En film av Peter Gaszynski. En film om världens största raggarträff. " Power Big Meet" lockar varje sommar tusentals intresserade till Johannisberg utanför Västerås. Författaren Sten Berglind berättar om den svenska raggarrörelsens historia. Finns på SVTPlay t.o.m 8 juni 2012.
Sten Berglinds Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria 1956. Utställd på Custom Motor Show, Elmia, Jönköping 2012. Musik: Elvis Presley - All shook up (C) Paola Svensson 2012 - created at http://animoto.com
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Själv är jag en Rockabilly men Raggarna var coola på 50-talet! Några Bilder På Svenska Raggare 50Talet. Bild 1 Raggare Från Raggarklubben The Road Devils. En av dom största Raggarklubbarna i Sverige på 50-Talet. Dom 3 största var The Car Angels,Teddy Boys och The Road Devils. Bild 2 Raggare från Klubben Car Angels i Stockholm. Bild3 Sten Berglind 1958 som skrivit boken Raggare Rebellerna Som Skakade Sverige. Bild4 En Raggare blie tagen av polisen efter ett upplopp i Karlsskoga 1960. Bild5 En Hudson tidigt 50-tal dom flesta Raggarna körde bilar från början av 50Talet.
A short documentary about rockabilly culture in Sweden. For a lot of young and old Swedes, golden 50s and 60s with shiny American hot rods, rock'n'roll and pinup style is the stuff that the dreams are made of. Backyards of Raggares are full of classic cars like Pontiacs, Mustangs and Chevys, pompadour haircuts and dotted pinup skirts are used confidently in everyday life. Every year these classics are brought out to the "biggest and baddest classic car show in the world" - Power Big Meet in Västeras, where everybody likes to boast with the fact that there are more American 50s and 60s cars registered in Sweden than in the USA itself. "I am Rockabilly" follows a rockabilly girl Carina and her family on their way to the Power Big Meet to get a glimpse to the Swedish Raggare world. Film by L...
The STEN (or Sten gun) was a family of British submachine guns chambered in 9×19mm and used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and the Korean War. They were notable for having a simple design and very low production cost making them effective insurgency weapons for resistance groups.
STEN is an acronym, from the names of the weapon's chief designers, Major Reginald V. Shepherd and Harold Turpin, and EN for Enfield. Over 4 million Stens in various versions were made in the 1940s.
The Sten emerged while Britain was engaged in the Battle of Britain, facing invasion by Germany. The army was forced to replace weapons lost during the evacuation from Dunkirk while expanding at the same time. Prior to 1941 (and even later) the British were purchasing all the Thompson submachine guns they could from the United States, but these did not begin to meet demand. The American entry into the war at the end of 1941 placed an even bigger demand on the facilities making Thompsons. In order to rapidly equip a sufficient fighting force to counter the Axis threat, the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, was commissioned to produce an alternative.