1916 Dated British Lewis Gun Magazine Carrier In Firearm Accessories A cylindrical cotton canvas, khaki bag designed to hold three, forty seven round drum magazines for the lewis machine gun. the carrier has two brass swivel fasteners for closing the bag and a carrying strap, in this case shortened to allow for the bag to be carried individually, but originally with claw buckle to allow it to be attached to a second carrier. this modification was very common. Slings were issued, authorised by gro 1967 of 25th november 1916. loc 17893, 60" in length x 2" wide, lined at one end with woven asbestos webbing. i have had two examples one dated 1916, the other 1917. a canvas trench bag for the lewis gun was authorised by gro 1291, dated 2nd december 1915. a similar bag was issued for the vickers gun.
1916 Dated British Lewis Gun Magazine Carrier In Firearm Accessories In addition the divisional ammunition column carried 2,000 rounds per gun. a set of carriers, magazine lewis .303 inch gun (nicknamed lewis buckets) that buckled together containing 4 magazines each weighing a total of 36 lbs. (16.4 kg). these were introduced on november 27th 1915 (loc 17739) author. A good used example of the lewis gun magazine bucket carrier this is dated onone of the leather reinforcing rings to the inside see pics x £(gbp) (aed) $(usd) €(eur) $(aud) $(nzd) $(cad) ¥(cny) ¥(jpy) sek nok dkk $ (usd). View our extensive collection of ww1 firearm accessories on militaria zone wwi lewis machine gun magazine chest. $96 1916 dated vickers machine gun elevation. Nice example of a not commonly seen accessory. original steel lewis gun drum box. dated 1916 with 4 british .303 drums. original green british field paint is present. no big dents in the box. l has some patina, (it’s over 100 years old) but it’s not rusted out or anything. a little oil preserves it well.
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