Our next #VickersMG gun study where we look closely at one of the guns in the collection. This one is an Australian-made Mark I gun but it didn’t start out as a Mark I – it was a Mark XXI tank gun converted by the factory at Lithgow back to a Mark I infantry gun. It has two serial numbers as a result: T118 crossed through and then B2240. Please do support us and become Patrons: www.patreon.com/vickersmg If you want to buy any of the posters in the background then go to: https://vickersmg.blog/about/sales/ You can also find links to our teeshirts here as well. Discount code available for Patrons.
Collecting items related to the Vickers machine gun since 1995, Richard is now the Director of the Vickers MG Collection & Research Association which manages a collection in Swindon, UK, that is on permanent display and conducts firing demonstations as part of its education and research activities. Richard is also a Trustee of the Small Arms School Corps Infantry Weapons Collection Trust at the Land Warfare Centre, Warminster, and a Research Fellow for Cranfield University at the Defence Academy.
Items you may have missed...
TAB Episode 30: Interview with Richard Fisher of the Vickers Machine Gun Collection
TAB Episode 52: Vickers Gun Disassembly
Vickers Heavy Machine Gun
Foreign Rifles of the Spanish Republic, 1936-1939
Military Mauser 98 Accuracy: What Do The German Manuals Say?
The History of C.M. Spencer, Syl H. Roper, and Their Pump Shotgun Designs: Part 1 of 3 (1833-1889)