20 Round SMLE Magazine

[Nigel]

This was on a dealer's table at the Kempton Park fair in the UK. It is only the 2nd time I've seen one in the flesh. Pouches are dated 1916. Mag is marked Linley & Co. The asking price seemed to vary throughout the day but ended up as £2,000. I didn't buy it.

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[browningautorifle]

Nice...if it were here. they'd have us drilling a hole and inserting pop rivets to limit the capacity to five.

[usabaker]

20 Round SMLE Magazine

Funny how this can be owned in the UK , but not here in California.

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ice...if it were here. they'd have us drilling a hole and inserting pop rivets to limit the capacity to five.

-In California it would have to be made into a 10-round but un-reversible; so pop rivets would not be allowed.

[RCS]

Correct me if I am wrong on the 20rd magazine - but was there a LMG (limited service) in india that also used this 20rd magazine ?

[Nigel]

Hotchkiss M1922 , M1924 and M1926 LMG. Could be fed either through the top mounted mag (SMLE 20 round was one type but the Spanish had a mag for 7x57) or variations could use the usual side-feeding Hotchkiss strip or the three-cartridge-per-link strip belt. The majority of countries used the strip feed.

[Bindi2]

RCS
Yes that is where the Mags were sent which is why they are so scarce. Stop gap measure till the Bren manufacturing caught up

[Roger Payne]

Yes, I gather that with a little modification they would fit the Vickers Berthier LMG.

[Melanie_Daniels]

In the last model of the Vickers-Berthier they fit without modification. And they fit in the NZ Charlton Automatic Rifle.

[Alan de Enfield]

This was on a dealer's table at the Kempton Park fair in the UK. It is only the 2nd time I've seen one in the flesh. Pouches are dated 1916. Mag is marked Linley & Co. The asking price seemed to vary throughout the day but ended up as £2,000. I didn't buy it.

A No4 20 round magazine sold about 2 years ago at (a UK) auction - I was out at £200 and it went a little (not much) higher.
Maybe I should have stayed in a bit longer !

This was it ....................

[Roy W]

A No4 20 round magazine sold about 2 years ago at (a UK) auction - I was out at £200 and it went a little (not much) higher.
Maybe I should have stayed in a bit longer !

This was it ....................

I thought the concensus was that one was modern as it had tig welding on the base?