British P-1939 Brown Leather Army Waist Belt Hand Select:Yes Part 7: Medium Machine Gun

Part 7: Medium Machine Gun (BESA 7

The Eisenhüttenwerke company of Thale carried out prototype design and testing

Original Item: Just a few of these really rare items found

CHURCHILL VII & VIII

According to Ottway's catalogue in 1899 they were manufacturers of

British P-1939 Brown Leather Army Waist Belt Hand Select:Yes Part 7: Medium Machine GunOriginal Item: Thanks to the careful eye of several of our knowledgeable customers we have been corrected in that the Advertised P 1903 belt recently arrived are in actual fact P 39 belts introduced as a stop gap measure at the beginning of WW2. Web manufacturing capacity had been fully taken up with the recently adopted P 37 webbing and demand was still overwhelming, therefore, Britain adopted the P 37 style belt in brown leather, instead of the