British Vickers Medium Machine Gun All-Steel Feed Block: Scarce Nepalese Cache Extras and should be able to

and should be able to be restored with some work and oil

The leather suspension

whilst the Enfield Martini's wooden hand guard was dispensed with in the process

The same box was also used for other cartridges and was stencil marked to indicate the contents

which is quite a bit different and which are quite common

British Vickers Medium Machine Gun All-Steel Feed Block: Scarce Nepalese Cache Extras and should be able toOriginal Item: While the vast majority of Vickers machine gun feed blocks were made of brass, a few were made of steel because of the improved wear characteristics. The manufacture of the steel blocks was discontinued, however, because of the greatly increased time to machine them. Consequently, all steel blocks are hard to find today. IMA has found a few of these steel blocks. They fall into two groups: blocks marked D. P. (for Drill Purpose, or