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Click to see full size image. Full-automatic VSM marked Vickers.
Click to see full size image. Full-automatic VSM marked Vickers.
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Click to see full size image. Semi-automatic Vickers, .303 inch, Mark I, built on what appears to be an Australian parts kit.

Click to see full size image. Semi-automatic Vickers, .303 inch, Mark I, built on an Australian parts kit purchased from International Military Antiques and fire control parts from Lonnie Ingram.

Click to see full size image. 11 mm Vickers cartridge and link for use in the Colt/Vickers WW1 aircraft Machine Gun. This round is the same as the 11X59R mm French Gras cartridge. The French were first to modify a Vickers gun to take their 11mm Desvignes cartridge. Colt was making a number of large caliber Vickers guns for the Russians, and this larger gun was the easiest to convert for the French 11mm round. 1,700 guns were ordered in England and the US from Colt.
The 11 mm Vickers fired 600 rpm with an effective incendiary tracer range of 1,850 yards. As ineffective as the French round was, it showed aviation authorities the necessity of a large bore machine gun or automatic cannon for warfare of the future.