More on the Vickers ...
Just picking up from last weeks Vickers machine gun post, I found this cartoon sketch in the National Archive – the full cartoon is under the fold.
However, don’t you just wish that you Grandmother had given you a Vickers??
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A pal of mine, while fossicking in the PRO for something entirely different -- Naval Intelligence in the Baltic states during the Russian revolution, probably -- came upon the following ditty pencilled in the margin of a document:
"Now this here is the Maxim gun,
Whose works are a terrible puzzle;
It cocks itself with its own recoil,
And bullets come out of the muzzle."
All the best,
John.
Posted by: John D Salt | May 4, 2009 9:31 PM