Help needed! I am looking for any drawings and detailed photos of Vickers K Gas Operated machine gun as well as some other reference materials usable to make an exact museum quality replica. The other problem is a Scarff ring used fot training purposes mounted on wooden crate. Any technical data or other reference for this what you can spot in the picture?
By: chumpy - 11th April 2010 at 08:42
..a section from an old press photo showing the training of RAFVR personnel in 1940. Mention made on the back of the photo that they are using a camera gun, looks like the drum-mag has been converted for this purpose. (note also that there are some ‘editorial’ ink lines on the photo).
Hope it might be of use, Chumpy.
By: Gretza - 11th April 2010 at 08:37
Vockers K (GO)
Thanks for good beginning. There are many other photographs of this post but unfortunately don’t show the wheels or carriage.
By: ant - 11th April 2010 at 08:16
What can we spot
Well firstly the airman look very much like Poles? Reserves, and the ring on which the gun is mounted has the two pully type ( probably two more that are hidden from veiw) wheels for travel around the outer ring which would have been fitted in the aeroplane.
Of course I am more than likely missing the most obvious things and no doubt will be taken to task over it . But the best of luck in your project.
By: bms44 - 11th April 2010 at 07:37
Vickers K (GO)
Hope this helps a little in your quest, the second one down in the illustration from a book that’s over 70 years old. It’s a start, hopefully for you.:)
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