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The Maxim was the first true machinegun,being belt fed as opposed to the hopper or bar fed predecessors like the Gatling,and led quickly to the development of the Vickers and all machineguns since. That's the sort of thing that attracted me to it. Worldwide Arms had another early Gatling type thing on a cannon like carriage from the Nepal armouries that I fancied but it was something like 12 grand so I passed on that one. Just before they shut they were advertising Lewis guns,but at 5 grand apiece I passed on those as well. I was waiting for them to drop the price on their spare barrels for the MG42 but they never dropped from nearly 200 quid,so I satisfied myself with an empty barrel holder for 20 or so quid for the sidecar.
The Maxim was the first true machinegun,being belt fed as opposed to the hopper or bar fed predecessors like the Gatling,and led quickly to the development of the Vickers and all machineguns since. That's the sort of thing that attracted me to it. Worldwide Arms had another early Gatling type thing on a cannon like carriage from the Nepal armouries that I fancied but it was something like 12 grand so I passed on that one. Just before they shut they were advertising Lewis guns,but at 5 grand apiece I passed on those as well. I was waiting for them to drop the price on their spare barrels for the MG42 but they never dropped from nearly 200 quid,so I satisfied myself with an empty barrel holder for 20 or so quid for the sidecar.
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