Original British Vickers-Berthier MkI Demilitarized Receiver British Machine Guns Army's Chemical Corps

Army's Chemical Corps

With the Government Policy of only one head to each hat we are able to buy these hardly used

bayonet may show some minor pitting

first time ever offered

and a few might be marked DP

Original British Vickers-Berthier MkI Demilitarized Receiver British Machine Guns Army's Chemical CorpsOriginal Item: Experience in WW 1 taught all the major powers that infantry needed a light machine gun. In Britain, this led to the adoption of the famous Bren LMG. In the trials that led to the adoption of the Bren, an LMG developed by the Vickers company from a Berthier design was a close competitor to the Bren. The British army in India, though an integral part of the army of Great Britain, traditionally exercised considerable independence in