British Vickers Medium Machine Gun All-Steel Feed Block: Scarce Hand Select:No WWII Dates Vary

WWII Dates Vary

With the Government Policy of only one head to each hat we are able to buy these hardly used

The MG 13 (shortened from German Maschinengewehr 13) was a German general-purpose machine gun obtained by rebuilding a World War I water-cooled machine gun

and was both copied and built under license

Each head bears stamped proof marks and acceptance dates but

British Vickers Medium Machine Gun All-Steel Feed Block: Scarce Hand Select:No WWII Dates VaryOriginal Item: While the vast majority of Vickers machine gun feed blocks were made of brass, a few were made of steel because of the improved wear characteristics. The manufacture of the steel blocks was discontinued, however, because of the greatly increased time to machine them. Consequently, all steel blocks are hard to find today. IMA has found a few of these steel blocks. They fall into two groups: blocks marked D. P. (for Drill Purpose, or