Pedersen "Selfloader" Rifle (Mfg by Vickers)

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With thanks to Advisory Panel member Terry Hawker, we've added a new entry to the England - Milsurp Knowledge Library (click here)

A very rare Pedersen "Selfloader" Rifle (Mfg by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Crayford, Kent, England) ... (click here) .....

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With thanks to Jim Keenan, TonyE and AlanD, we've updated the "Collectors Comments and Feedback" section of this entry in the England - Milsurp Knowledge Library

Pedersen "Selfloader" Rifle (Mfg by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Crayford, Kent, England)

Additional information with photos about ammunition types, as well as serial number data from known examples in the Portsmouth "Explosion" Museum has been added to the entry.

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With thanks to AlanD, we've updated the "Collectors Comments and Feedback" section of this entry in the England - Milsurp Knowledge Library

Pedersen "Selfloader" Rifle (Mfg by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Crayford, Kent, England)

Alan has provide additional information and serial numbers of Vickers-Pederson rifles that have ended up in the Imperial War Museum.

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With thanks to Terry Hawker, we've updated the "Collectors Comments and Feedback" section of this entry in the England - Milsurp Knowledge Library

Pedersen "Selfloader" Rifle (Mfg by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Crayford, Kent, England)

With thanks to Mr. Thomas N. Magee, Terry has added some very interesting new information on the Pedersen rifles and carbines, which has come to light recently in a piece Mr. Magee wrote for the "Favorite Firearms" section of the December, 2008 issue of the NRA's, "American Rifleman", titled, "An Unusual Vickers".

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[MGMike]

Six Vickers-Pedersen rifles were in the Cogswell & Harrison Ltd. inventory when it was acquired by Samuel Cummings of (then) Interarmco in 1959.

Most were in the low-to-mid 200 serial range. Nos. 157 and 232 were in the Cummings collection. I have no. 229.

These British guns are readily distinguished from the U.S. trials version by the external shape of the magazine, which is noticeably different.

No. 257, a carbine, was sold at the most recent Poulin auction for US$8912.50. No. 108 was featured many years ago in a "Rifle" magazine article.

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