we really need a vickers forum

Mr. E, you never did cop to what make semi set up you have there...
Still interested!!!

My wife went to Belton House in Grantham today (Very close to home) and she said 'I'll send you a photo of someone I met at Belton House today'

This is what she sent.

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Fiona Bruce (Antiques Roadshow for you foreign chaps) and a Grand Old Lady. The relevance is that Belton House was the old Machine Gun School back in the day.

any one ever see a .22 barrel for a vickers. as far as I can tell from the description given by the guy who seen it.
it has a .22 bore but a 303 (ish) chamber

Someone brought one to the Small Arms School at Warminster to show us and it looked like one of those (from memory now.....) .303" chambers into which you fed a .303" 'round' that held an offset .22" cartridge. Offset slightly so that the rim fire part aligned with the normal striker in the Vickers lock.

He mentioned that it used the same(?) 'loading cartridges' as a similarly converted rifle - whatever that was - although we did had one or two