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Mount for the Vickers Machine gun ???????

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chris808

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:angry: :angry: :( Hi All having one of those days ,can i use the mount with the kit that being the one for the lewis gun,i have looked and looked for a decent picture of how it would have been mounted, in the rear of the truck i have seen one on a LRDG site which shows a sort of bent/curved design which seems o be attached to the side of the interior of the truck .
Does anyone have any ideas or have done this model with a vickers configaration, bit frustrating seemed to be spending more time looking on the webb than doing the bloody model ...lol :unsure: :woohoo:

Cheers
 
Chris i have done the Vickers type LRDG ,are you thinkin of the swan neck mount for the Lewis gun on the passenger side ??????
 
Hi Chris , ...... when it comes to North Africa my thinking always tells me anything is possible .
Early on with shortages from beans to bullets , ........ let alone transporting things to a very fluid front , ......... I'm sure ad-hoc measures were taken to arm everything with anything .

Carabiner , yes the swan neck mount was used along side both the driver and passenger sides for , Lewis guns , Vickers mgs , etc.

If you look at the Bren carrier short pedestal mount , ...... I would say the Vickers was mounted in the same fashion on the LRDG .
Notice it has the cradle still attached to the mg which I'm assuming then slid into the pedestal .
Oh yeah I'm also sure the water tube was just very long to enable the mg to traverse left to right .

Some stuff ......... the second pic. is in Russia but just goes to show how field units made just about anything , to weld or bolt to a tank or any other vehicle in the field .

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Hi Guys

Thanks so much for the info Glen i did see some thing on that site but some of that stuff i have not seen awesome, think i will have to build the ammo box holder from scratch from what i can see from the pics.
It starting to come together will be posting some pics soon .

Cheers Mate

Chris
 
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