this bottle provided a substantial amount of oil or bore cleaner for maintenance of the Madsen Light Machine Gun (LMG)
Turkey adopted the British water cooled Vickers Machinegun in the 1920s and with war looming all over Europe in the late 1930s asked for a further quantity of 1
Included in this wonderful collection are the following pieces:
which was designed for muzzle-loading cannon that had been modified by cutting three deep rifling grooves into the bore
Original British RSMLE Balance Spring and Tool Combination Mk I Spanish Military Equipment this bottle provided a substantialOriginal Item: The Balance, Spring, RSMLE, And Tool, Combination, Mk. I, was issued to unit armorers to weigh various spring strengths and the bolt opening resistance for the Rifle, Short, Magazine, Lee Enfield. The tool also featured a bullet shaped point for aligning screw holes and a flat scoop shaped tool for removing the rear hand guard on the SMLE rifle. [See Ian Skennerton, SAIS No. 14, page 30.] The scales were manufactured by George Salter