Found a surplus web site that has boxes of original and repackaged british surplus ammunition.

Even though the ammunition was made by the UKicon government, the same cartridge designations have been labeled as being made specifically for certain weapons.

Ie, the same Mark VI can be labeled as "rifle", "Vickers gun", and "lewis gun" only.

My question is, what sort of twit would have come up with idea like that. Seen to accounts over the years of ww1 machine gunners, particularly aircraft, taking boxes of pre belted .303 british and simply pulling them and sticking them in lewis drums. And so forth have seen far to many accounts from both wars and multiple regions of the infantry taking belted ammunition from unusable MG and unbolting them and using in their rifles.
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