Vickers machine gun
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The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled.303 British machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army. The gun was operated by a three-man crew, but typically r
A Vickers machine gun mounted on a tripod. This example is at York Castle Museum.
A Vickers machine gun crew in action at the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, September 1917
The cockpit of a Bristol Scout biplane in 1916, showing a Vickers machine gun synchronised to fire through the propeller by an early Vickers-Challenger interrupter gear.
Vickers Mk. II* or III in naval anti-aircraft service during WWII in the Mediterranean
Lewis gun
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The Lewis gun is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States though not adopted there, the design was finalised and mass-produced in the United Kingdom, and widely
Vickers machine gun
…progressed, and production numbers increased, it became the British Army's primary machine gun, and was used on all fronts during the conflict. When the Lewis Gun was adopted as a light machine gun and issued to infantry units, the Vickers guns were redefined as heavy machine guns, withdrawn from infantry units…
Lewis Gun
A Lewis gun at the Elgin Military Museum Canada. The rear end of its light-gray finned aluminium heat sink, which fits within the gun's brass-coloured cylindrical cooling shroud, can be seen.
A 1917 recruiting poster for the United States Marines featuring a Lewis gun
Men of the 28th Battalion of the 2nd Australian Division practising Lewis gun drill at Renescure