22. Class C, 6.5mm, Netherlands East Indies

With the Vickers machine gun’s reputation built during the war, other countries around the world took advantage of the large amount of government surplus and the arms industry flourished, particularly Vickers Limited – the company – and they became Vickers-Armstrongs in 1927, increasing their market share further. In doing so, they sold the Vickers machine gun and its derivatives globally. Examples of these countries include the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) where two ‘Class C’ guns – as the commercial land service guns were known – in 6.5mm were initially sent in 1921.