This is currently the only kit of its type that I know of, depicting this famous and widely used weapon.

Hi Bajtur,

The Vickers MG was water cooled by about 7.5 imperial pints of water contained in the 'tube' around the barrel - (water jacket - these were both smooth and ribbed). The steam was fed back into a condenser can for re-use when it cooled. These weapons became very hot, very quickly and although I can find no specific reference to the canvas jacket so far, I would hazard a guess that it was to help prevent burns to the gunners/loaders hands if they touched the barrel by mistake.

If I'm wrong someone will point it out

Al

Thanks Alan.

That was a good read.
Chas hit the nail on the head in his earlier post about the Johore strait because it was down to a handful of well trained vickers machine crews to stop/slow down the assault into Singapore.

A devestating weapon in an indirect fire roll.

I have this Resicast set

It is quite a comprehensive machine gun set and well worth the money .

Chas hit the nail on the head in his earlier post about the Johore strait because it was down to a handful of well trained vickers machine crews to stop/slow down the assault into Singapore.

Alan,

I'd like to say thanks for the pictures you sent me, and for your continued research making this thread a reference in itself!

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Chas hit the nail on the head in his earlier post about the Johore strait because it was down to a handful of well trained vickers machine crews to stop/slow down the assault into Singapore.

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Hi Michael, there's a really great report on this action in the book "Singapore Burning" by Colin Smith, beautifully told.

Chas

Hiya Chas,

Another good read is a book called
The Battle for Singapore by Peter Thompson .
It covers quite an extensive theatre of battle for the Australians defending the johore strait.

Cheers,
Michael