Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei pene - Hei whakatutuki i te whakaritenga hou, George William Patchett, te kaihoahoa matua i te Sterling Armaments Company o Dagenham, i tukuna he tauira patu o te hoahoa hou i te timatanga o te 1944. Ko te patu tauira tuatahi a Patchett he rite ki te Sten i te mea ko tana ringa kohatu (me te waahi i neke haere ai ia ki muri) i tuhia ki te raina o te tauranga werohanga ahakoa i hangaia ano i muri mai ka neke ki runga ki te waahi iti. I mohio tere te ope ki te nui ake o te tika me te pono o te Patchett i whakaritea ki te Sten me te tono 120 tauira mo nga whakamatautau. I te mutunga o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, ko etahi o enei tauira whakamatautau i whakamahia i te pakanga e nga hoia rererangi i te pakanga o Arnhem
me nga ope motuhake i etahi atu waahi i te Raki o Uropi i mohiotia ai ko te Patchett Machine Carbine Mk 1. Hei tauira, he pupuhi miihini Patchett (te nama raupapa 078 a kei te pupuri inaianei i te Imperial War Museum), i kawea i te mahi a Colonel Robert W.P. Dawson i a ia e rangatira ana i te No. 4 Commando, i te whakaeke ki a Walcheren hei waahanga o te Operation Infatuate i te Noema 1944. Na te mea ka taea e te Patchett / Sterling te whakamahi i nga kaituhi Sten tika me te hoahoa Sterling piko, kaore he raru o te mahi tahi.