Vickers MG study: H 5529 (and the Vickers machine gun mechanism)

Here we take a closer look at one specific gun in the collection. This time it's H 5529 - a 1918 gun with a smooth barrel casing. An added bonus with this gun is that it's a skeletonised version and it means we can describe the mechanism and functioning of the Vickers machine gun. This will hopefully be part of a series of closer and more detailled studies of the items in our collection.

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Richard

thank you very much for posting
it is greatly appreciated and extremely interesting


regards
Clive

 

You're very welcome Clive. Thank you for watching, hopefully subscribing and liking the video too.

We're planning on doing one of these a month, really focussed on one particular weapon in the collection. It's amazing how much detail, and extra information, can be drawn out from a single gun.

Richard

 

I'm trying to remember a movie that had a great Vickers scene.

A Maharaj's spoiled son was shooting up the inner courtyard of one of his palaces with his new Vickers just for fun. It might have been a TV miniseries. Can't remember much else. There were some young Europeans visiting him or his father and I think there were some German officers in uniform about too. Made within the last twenty years.

Ring any bells with anyone?

 

Wasn't The Jewel in the Crown, was it? I saw most of that and don't recall any such scene.

 

Very nice, as usual on your site. I didn't know they were making smooth barrel casings as early as 1918.

 

I don't think it was that. More WWI era, I think. I'll have to watch Jewel in the Crown though. Looks good.

 

You're welcome. It's an interesting period of production and I've had contact from people with guns very close in serial number to this that have the fluted jackets so it looks like batch production of components and then assigned serial numbers on completion.

More of these videos to come hopefully (we've got a few guns to go through).