The observer was armed with one .303 Lewis Machine Gun firing forward. Later, another Lewis was added, mounted to fire backwards. This arrangement was described by Frederick Libby, the first ...
The machine ... gun design in a basement flat in east London. One of Maxim's early prototypes could fire 666 rounds in a minute – around 11 bullets every second. In the battlefield conditions of ...
Gun expert Robert Tilney was excited to find a Vickers machine gun from 1917 A man who bought a World War One machine gun 20 years ago for £1,000 has been told it is now worthless by BBC Antiques ...