The Vickers Maxim Machine Gun

Author : Martin Pegler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178096384X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vickers-Maxim Machine Gun written by Martin Pegler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's first self-powered machine gun, the Maxim gun became a potent symbol of Victorian colonialism in the closing years of the 19th century. It was the brainchild of Sir Hiram Maxim, the American-born firearms inventor who founded the company bearing his name with financing from Albert Vickers, who became the company's chairman; Maxim's company was absorbed by Vickers, Sons and Company in 1897. Subsequent variants in British, German and Russian service – the .303in Vickers (1912), 7.92mm MG 08 (1908) and 7.62mm PM M1910, respectively – dominated both the Eastern and Western Fronts during World War I and soldiered on into World War II, while the Vickers remained in front-line British service essentially unchanged until 1968. Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork and written by a noted authority, this is the engaging story of the Maxim and its descendants, the innovative rapid-fire weapons that saw combat with British, German, Russian and other forces in the late Victorian era and throughout the world wars.

Author : Martin Pegler
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN 13 : 9781785215636
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vickers-Maxim Machine Guns Enthusiasts' Manual written by Martin Pegler and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vickers-Maxim Machine Guns Enthusiasts' Manual is the first in a new range of Haynes ‘crew-served’ heavy weapons manuals. The Vickers is one of the best-known British heavy machine guns. The Maxim gun was the first fully automated machine gun to be introduced into military service at the end of the 19th century. Gradually refined to become the Vickers 0.303in medium machine-gun, it was used widely by British and Commonwealth forces in both world wars. Operated by a three-man crew, it was popularly known as ‘the Vickers’. Firearms expert and acclaimed author Martin Pegler, a former Senior Curator of Firearms at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, describes the concept of an automated machine-gun and its potential use for land forces; its genesis, design, development and early trials; and the introduction by the UK military of the Vickers machine gun and its adoption for infantry, aircraft and armoured vehicles in the world wars of the 20th century.

Author : Frederick Victor Longstaff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Machine Gun written by Frederick Victor Longstaff and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook for the .303-in. Vickers Machine Gun (magazine Rifle Chamber) written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dolf L. Goldsmith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996521871
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vickers Machine Gun written by Dolf L. Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the limited-quantity Exclusive Edition, which features an upgraded red casing with gold stamp design and beautiful red and gold end papers. The Vickers Machine Gun: Pride of the Emma Gees is an updated and expanded edition of a previous work by author Dolf L. Goldsmith called The Grand Old Lady of No Man's Land: The Vickers Machinegun, published in 1994. Dolf and several other subject expert collaborators, including Dan Shea, Robert G. Segel and Richard Fisher, have collectively added over 300 pages of new content and photos! This hardcover book, printed in the U.S.A., is an invaluable reference for Vickers machine gun enthusiasts.

Author : United States. Army. Ordnance Department
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the Vickers Machine Gun, Model of 1915 written by United States. Army. Ordnance Department and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the Vickers Machine Gun, Model of 1915, with Pack Outfits and Accessories, March 19, 1917 written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Walter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472836146
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hotchkiss Machine Guns written by John Walter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by a long-forgotten Austrian nobleman, Adolf Odkolek von Augezd, the air-cooled Hotchkiss machine gun was the first to function effectively by tapping propellant gas from the bore as the gun fired. Although the Hotchkiss would be overshadowed by the water-cooled Maxim and Vickers Guns, it proved its effectiveness during the Russo-Japanese War. The gun, quirky though it was, was successful enough to persuade Laurence Benét and Henri Mercié to develop the Modèle Portative: a man-portable version which, it was hoped, could move with infantrymen as they advanced. Later mounted on tanks and aircraft, it became the first automatic weapon to obtain a 'kill' in aerial combat. Though it served the French and US armies during World War I (and also the British in areas where French and British units fought alongside each other), the Odkolek-Hotchkiss system was to have its longest-term effect in Japan. Here, a succession of derivatives found favour in theatres of operations in which water-cooling could be more of a liability than an asset. When US forces landed on Saipan, Guam and Iwo Jima, battling their way from island to island across the Pacific, it was the 'Woodpecker' – the Type 92 Hotchkiss, with its characteristically slow rate of fire – which cut swathes through their ranks. Supported by contemporary photographs and full-colour illustrations, this title explores the exciting and eventful history of the first successful gas-operated machine gun.

Author : George M. Chinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258052447
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The MacHine Gun V1 written by George M. Chinn and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James H. Willbanks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851094857
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machine Guns written by James H. Willbanks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The machine gun—often called the killing machine—revolutionized modern ground combat, brought an end to the traditional infantry and cavalry charge, and changed the battlefields of war forever. This volume in the Weapons and Warfare series describes the history of machine guns from the mid-19th century to the present, following both the evolution of small arms technology and the impact of machine guns on the battlefield, on military strategy, and on human society. This book discusses subjects ranging from the forerunners of mechanical and automatic guns, to the unusual history of the Civil War-era Gatling gun (the first practical machine gun, not used by the Union army because Gatling was a Southerner), to the machine guns developed for the world wars and those for present day use. Readers will see how the advent of the machine gun revolutionized ground combat—and how in some instances, technology outran tactics and doctrines, with disastrous consequences.