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Posted: 9/19/2015 5:17:21 PM EDT
A few years ago I bought a Vickers and I recently came across another one at a reasonable price. Since I have spare parts to keep a Vickers running I added it to the safe. The big surprise was that the first and second guns are sequential serial numbers. Pretty cool luck, eh? I think they're happy to be back together again. The guns came out of completely different parts of the country from different sellers and are Wilson sideplate guns.
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Since they're side plate guns they were built from parts kits. The finned shroud is a Brit gun originally made in 1918. I haven't had time yet to pull out the vickers book to see when and where the straight shroud gun was made
The only thing that's sequential is the side plates. That's definitely not as cool as having true sequential from the factory. |
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Not mine, but looks like a nice parts kit for sale.
http://www.sturmgewehr.com/webBBS/collectors.cgi?read=49575 |
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Quoted: Not mine, but looks like a nice parts kit for sale. http://www.sturmgewehr.com/webBBS/collectors.cgi?read=49575 |
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What's the story with that ? It can only be made into semi auto ? Quoted:
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Not mine, but looks like a nice parts kit for sale. http://www.sturmgewehr.com/webBBS/collectors.cgi?read=49575 It is a nice kit, and at a good price. Potentially it can be made into any legal class of gun, but I've never heard of a loose registered Vickers plate. It is my understanding that another type of side plate (MG08, for example) could be adapted to fit a Vickers, but I've not heard of that either. Most likely that kit would live on as spare parts, a post-sample or a semi. |
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Nice. Making me want a Vickers! Here you go: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=508530031 It's an Erb sideplate gun, but at $13,000, I think it's a steal. The only part that concerns me slightly is that the left side plate looks to be registered. ATF has flip flopped over the years on which Maxim side plate is the registered part (early on it was the left and now it's the right), but I thought a Vickers was always the right side. |
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Nice pair! I shall assist in filling this thread with Vickers love! This is my original British C&R Vickers, made in October 1917. <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/CTinNV/media/IMG_2723_zps1dc2f6ca.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/CTinNV/IMG_2723_zps1dc2f6ca.jpg</a>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwAqo8x6bFgDid you say "rad" 
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Nice pair! I shall assist in filling this thread with Vickers love! This is my original British C&R Vickers, made in October 1917. <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/CTinNV/media/IMG_2723_zps1dc2f6ca.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/CTinNV/IMG_2723_zps1dc2f6ca.jpg</a> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwAqo8x6bFgDid you say "rad" Nope, I was filming that scene. 
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