Original British WWII Vickers Machine Gun Water Esso Spirit Can - Petrol 2 Gallons British Field Gear Original Item: Most of the

Original Item: Most of the magazine loading tools made for the Lewis Light Machine Gun were made from a single piece of tubular steel

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The Italian Army requested minor changes to reduce production costs

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re-barreled for the standard

Original British WWII Vickers Machine Gun Water Esso Spirit Can - Petrol 2 Gallons British Field Gear Original Item: Most of theOriginal Item: Only One Available. Original aviation can showing the ESSO logo clearly stamped on each side. Originally these WW2 cans were manufactured to contain Petrol (gasoline) and were embossed with a large ESSO logo on the top and: ESSO PETROLEUM SPIRIT HIGHLY INFLAMMABLE In short order, however, these were adopted by the Machine Gun Corp to be used as water condensing can with the water cooled Vickers Machine Guns. The rapid Machine gun fire