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Post by ruusserg on Jan 10, 2014 22:11:10 GMT 1
Does anyone know to say the year of manufacture, and the factory where the gun was made . The gun was found in Estonia . |
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Post by woodsy on Jan 10, 2014 22:25:42 GMT 1
Does anyone know to say the year of manufacture, and the factory where the gun was made . The gun was found in Estonia . Your gun was made at the Erith (South East London) factory during the period of Oct-Dec 1917. |
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Post by ruusserg on Jan 11, 2014 8:04:21 GMT 1
Is it possible to find the time and how many guns were sold to Estonia . What is the exact name of this type machine gun ?
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Post by woodsy on Jan 11, 2014 10:01:42 GMT 1
The gun is a Mk I Vickers, probably in .303 calibre. According to the book, Estonia only ever ordered one gun from Vickers and that was a Class C (Mk I) serial number 83177, for trials in 1927, ten years after your gun was built.
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Post by ruusserg on Jan 11, 2014 10:34:52 GMT 1
Is it possible to find out in what country's army it was used , and how he ended up in Estonia.
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Post by tom on Jan 14, 2014 14:30:14 GMT 1
In 1918 we gifted a major shipment of arms to Estonia so it's probably from that. We also sent them the .303 Masdens the Danes made for us during WW1 but couldn't deliver. One of the cruisers carrying them went down so only half got there but still a substantial amount was delivered. ww2talk.com/forums/topic/22746-danish-mg/ATB Tom I vaguely remember seeing a Masden in a museum in or near Tallin back in '98 but it was our honeymoon so I may have been hallucinating.... |
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Post by ruusserg on Jan 16, 2014 21:11:27 GMT 1
No Tom You did not had a hallucination , the Madsen machine gun still in a museum near the Tallinn . Thank to all who helped to find the answer to my question .
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