British Vickers MMG Rear Sight Assembly & Range Scale: MKIV (type 3) Caps & Hats Original Item: In another military

Original Item: In another military antiques coup

These Bobby Helmets get harder to find by the day as destruction orders are often now issued to obsolete Police items disallowing surplus and hence they never enter the private collecting sector

As a defensive ring mounted gun the Schwarzlose usually retained its normal twin firing handles and trigger button although some MG-16 aircraft guns were fitted with enlarged pistol shaped handles and a handgun style trigger

minus the receiver

British Vickers MMG Rear Sight Assembly & Range Scale: MKIV (type 3) Caps & Hats Original Item: In another militaryOriginal Item: As with any long serving military arm, design changes will occur over time, especially as the methods of use of the weapon change. The British Vickers Mk I Medium Machine Gun served for over 50 years in environments as different as the trenches of the Western Front in the First World War to the jungles of Southeast Asia and the deserts of North Africa in the Second World War. The basic design of the gun was so sound from the beginning