British WWII Vickers Machine Gun Cross Bolt Adapter

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New Made Item: Experimentally used with the Water Cooled Vickers gun with simple cross bolt adopter that fitted into the forward Vickers tripod mounting hole. Replaced with its adoption of the folding Sangster mount.

The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army. The machine gun typically required a six to eight-man team to operate: one fired, one fed the ammunition, the rest helped to carry the weapon, its ammunition and spare parts.[1] It was in service from before the First World War until the 1960s, with air-cooled versions of it on many Allied World War I fighter aircraft.

The weapon had a reputation for great solidity and reliability. Ian V. Hogg, in Weapons & War Machines, describes an action that took place in August 1916, during which the British 100th Company of the Machine Gun Corps fired their ten Vickers guns continuously for twelve hours. Using 100 barrels, they fired a million rounds without a failure. “It was this absolute foolproof reliability which endeared the Vickers to every British soldier who ever fired one.”