Anyone have Vickers Parts?

[NikolaiBorjeski]

Does anyone know a good place to find Vickers MMG parts? Our reenactment group is looking to put together a Vickers parts display, things like sights, spade grips, top covers and other accessories. I've searched everywhere but everything has come up empty.

 

[bearhunter]

Do a search and look up "wheaty" a member of this site.

He can help you out.

 

[stencollector]

I bought a couple of lots of parts from a recent Australian auction and got a number of the tool for stretching the belt in order to reload it with fresh rounds. One will remain in my own collection, but the rest will be up for grabs.
I got a few other things that were Vickers related, but aside from some of the leather wrapped oil cans, they were in too small a number to part with. So I do have a small number of the oil cans available. These were also issued with artillery pieces. PM me if interested.

 

[LeakyCanoe]

I've come to recently learn that I have a couple of interesting and rare Vickers accessories. They were in a machinist's toolchest from an estate sale and for the life of me I wasn't able to figure them out until just now. It was the engraving on the one main piece that helped lead me to the online research where I discovered that they were calibration tools specifically made for Vickers so that the field artillery and Vickers units could plot machine gun round trajectories.

I have both the main plotter and the accompanying piece (I think it is called a resector protractor / goniometer ?). The plotter is engraved to ID it as a Vickers piece from WW2. I do not have cases for either piece.

Here is the website I finally located that ID's what I have:

https://vickersmg.blog/in-use/accessories/sighting-and-gun-laying-equipment/#protractors

All in all, these seem to be quite rare. I do not collect militaria and so I have been doing online research as to just what I have and their value, how to go about selling them off, etc. when I found this thread post. If you or anyone else here are interested please PM me and I can get them out and take some pictures and send those along and we can have a further dialogue by email. I am located in SW Ontario.