Deactivated WWII Vickers Machine Gun MKI with Tripod

This is a super condition WWII Vickers MKI machine gun. The serial number 8861 dates to mid 1943 and is one of only 12,300 or so produced by Lithgow. Note the serial number has no letter suffix meaning it is gun number 8,861st from the first batch of 10,000 afterwhich a B suffix was added. Both gun and tripod are both profusely broad arrow marked. The tripod dated 1942 and cradle dated 1943 are also Aussie made by Randwick Tramways (RT), with the Tripod marked FTR - Factory Through Repaired in 1955.

The Vickers is one of most iconic and instantly recogniseable British machine guns being used is both world wars and continuing in service with the British army well into the 1960s.