It’s always intrigued me as to how noisy it is to fire the Vickers. It’s been my view that’s it’s a ‘quiet’ gun for the No. 1 to fire as the cartridge is being initiated almost a metre away from their head. Continue reading How loud is firing the Vickers?
This article isn’t an extension of my previous blog article about light, medium and heavy machine guns, although it’s something I could rant about quite a bit. Continue reading How much does a Vickers weigh?
Well I couldn’t figure out where this fits on the Vickers website at the moment so I thought I’d go ahead and write a blog article about it instead.
This document was given to the Association last year to digitise and add to the archive as it was seen as something quite important given the Great War centenary that is coming to an end. This reminds us that 1919 was not only when peace was celebrated but much of the Army was still in service and would be waiting to come home for some time. Continue reading 1919 Peace Celebrations
Answer: A Vickers Machine Gun.
There’s been some posts recently that have made me think about writing this post on nomenclature surrounding the Vickers Machine Gun. It’s worth emphasising that this is all the post is about. I’ll try and explain what the Vickers was called and when. This is from a British and Commonwealth perspective but also with a flavour of the marketing that Vickers Ltd added to it as well. Continue reading What weighs a lot but isn’t Heavy?
Over the past few years, I’ve been in the process of restoring some handcarts that were used for the Vickers MG by the Irish Army. Those that have visited the collection will have seen these in progress. They took much longer than I had hoped but I’m very pleased with the outcome, as are the friends that I restored them for.
This blog article goes into a bit of detail about the handcarts themselves and then talks through the restoration process that I went through. Continue reading Project complete: Irish Handcarts
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The Bren Gun with the British Infantry: 1938-1941
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A CANLOAN Officer - a VMGCRA Reprint
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