Updated: Manuals and Handbooks

[Richard Fisher]

I have added a variety of different manuals and handbooks available as .zip files of compacted .jpg images to download. The current listing is:

• Guns for the Home Guard
  
• Handbook for the .303-in Vickers Machine Gun, Mounted on Tripod, Mounting, Mark IV, April 1918.
  
• Handbook for the .303-inch Vickers Machine Gun 1930. Supplement.
  
• Handbook of the Vickers Machine Gun, Model of 1915, with Pack Outfits and Accessories, March 15, 1917 (Reprinted July 11, 1917)
  
• How to Remedy and Prevent Stoppages
  
• Identification List. Gun, Machine, Vickers .303-in., Mk. I and Mounting Tripod, .303-in., M.G., Mk.IVB. 1945
  
• Identification List for Gun, Machine, Vickers .303-in., Mark 1, on Mounting, Tripod, .303-in., M.G., Mark 4B. 1949
  
• Identification List, Amendment No. 14, 1954.
  
• Infantry Training, Volume II, Infantry Heavy Weapons, Pamphlet No. 26, Range-finder No. 12, 1946 (Reprinted with Amendments (No. 1), 1949)
  
• La Mitrailleuse anglaise "Vickers" (9e Edition)
  
• Machine Gun Commanders' Memory Card (9th Edition)
  
• Machine Gun Training, 1921 - Provisional
  
• Machine Gun Training, 1925
  
• Machine Gunners' Handbook (11th Edition)
  
• Small Arms Training, Volume I, Pamphlet No. 7, Part I - Mechanical Subjects, 1939
  
• Small Arms Training, Volume III, 1931
  
• Small Arms Training, Volume V, 1931
  
• Tank Training, Volume II, Part III, Weapons - Sequence of Instruction.
  

This is in addition to the .tif files which are already available on the page:

• Military Training Pamphlet No. 31, Notes on the Organisation and the Tactical Handling of Medium Machine Guns, 1940
  
• Military Training Pamphlet No. 35, Part 4: Vickers GO Machine-Gun, Mark I, 1943
  
• Small Arms Training, Volume I, Pamphlet No. 7, .303-inch Machine Gun, Part I - Mechanical Subjects, 1939 (Reprinted with Amendments (Nos. 1 and 2), 1941
  
• Small Arms Training, Volume I, Pamphlet No. 7, .303-inch Machine Gun, Part I - Mechanical Subjects, 1941
  
• Small Arms Training, Volume I, Pamphlet No. 7, .303-inch Machine Gun, Part II - Training, 1939
  
• Small Arms Training, Volume I, Pamphlet No. 7, .303-inch Machine Gun, Part II - Training, 1941
  
• Small Arms Training, Volume I, Pamphlet No. 7, .303-inch Machine Gun, Part II - Training, 1941, Supplement No. 1, Radial Twin Vickers A.A. Mounting, 1942
  
• Small Arms Training, Volume I, Pamphlet No. 7, .303-inch Machine Gun, Part II - Training, 1944
  
• Small Arms Training, Volume I, Pamphlet No. 7, .303-inch Machine Gun, Part I - Mechanical Subjects, 1939, Supplement, The Clinometer and Bar Foresight, 1940 (Australian)
  
• Small Arms Training, Volume I, Pamphlet No. 7, .303-inch Machine Gun, Part I - Mechanical Subjects, 1939 (Reprinted with Amendments, 1942) (Australian)
  
• The Vickers Gun Simplified (Robertson & Mullins Ltd., Melbourne)
  

[Richard Fisher]

Added:

Machine Gun Training, 1925

[Richard Fisher]

Added:

Machine Gun Training, 1921 - Provisional

[Richard Fisher]

Rearranged to make updates easier and added more information.

[Richard Fisher]

Added:

- AMF Identification List, 1945

[Richard Fisher]

I have added:

- Machine Gunner's Handbook (11th Edition)
This edition covers the Vickers and the Lewis and was printed in 1917. It also includes the card insert which is missing from my other editions.
- Guns for the Home Guard
Nice manual which covers the Vickers, Anti-Tank Rifle, Tommy Gun, Browning Automatic Gun and Lewis Gun.
- La Mitrailleuse anglaise "Vickers"
A French Vickers manual which is quite nice to look at even if you can't read it!


I think I am probably coming near to my webspace limit so I will be putting on the downloads page a short paragraph saying that while I do not charge for the downloads of these, I would appreciate donations to the running of the website using the PayPal link as these do take up significant bandwidth that I am allocated and when the allowance is full, I will have to purchase more.

Thanks,

Richard

[Richard Fisher]

Also added:

- Small Arms Training, Volume I, Pamphlet No. 7, Part I - Mechanical Subjects, 1939.

Rich

[Richard Fisher]

Forgot about these:

- Tank Training, Volume II, Part III, Weapons - Sequence of Instruction.
- Machine Gun Commanders' Memory Card (9th Edition)
- How to Remedy and Prevent Stoppages
- Handbook for the .303-inch Vickers Machine Gun 1930. Supplement.

I do hope these are of use / interest to people!

Rich

[Richard Fisher]

I have finally started the task of completing the full online version of the 1951 manual and have uploaded five additional chapters from Part II (Drills and Training). The rest will follow soon.

[fjruple]

Richard--

I am having problems accessing several of the manuals to dowmload I am getting a error 404 message.

--fjruple

[Richard Fisher]

Fully reviewed manuals page and provided lists rather than thumbnail images.

[Richard Fisher]

I have changed the downloads page and only a select few are now available for download to save space. However, all are available to order by email using the online form which is part of the page.

Please feel free to try it out.

Rich

[Richard Fisher]

List of manuals not yet available for email has been added so future availability can be seen.

Also, if you have any that I have not listed for sale then let me know.

Rich

[Richard Fisher]

Additional items added to the download request list:

• Identification List For Gun, Machine, Vickers, .303-in., Mark 1 On Mounting, Tripod, .303-in., M.G., Mark 4B (Iraq, 1975)
  
• Volume II, Infantry Heavy Weapons, Pamphlet No. 24, The Medium Machine Gun, Part I - Mechanical Subjects (UK, 1951)
  
• Volume II, Infantry Heavy Weapons, Pamphlet No. 24, The Medium Machine Gun, Part II - Training (UK, 1951)
  
• Armament Free Gun Air Firing - Notes for Students (UK, 1943)
  
• S.A. Identification Lists, C.1 American, Guns, Machine, Vickers .30in., U.S.A., Mk. 1., and Mountings (UK, 1941)
  
• Kaasutoimintainen tahystajakonekivaari Vickers Kal. 7,70 mm. (.303') [Vickers GO Gun] (Finland, 1943)
  

I will also be updating the list to reflect my latest collection of manuals.

Rich

[Richard Fisher]

I have added:

Handbook for the Vickers Gun

This was the first RAF handbook for the Gun published in 1919.

Rather than have people request this, I have uploaded it to a third-party file hosting site in an attempt to provide a more direct method of manual access. This will be online for 90-days and will be deleted automatically. If this works, I will consider purchasing a subscription to the site so they can be online all the time (and will upload the other manuals as well).

Regards

Rich