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PM sent. Thanks. Alan

If there is any chance of some more information on the .30/06 Vickers rifle I would be grateful. Serial number and if marked Vickers Ltd or Vickers Armstrong Co. Regards Alan

Thanks for the new information. I have got the Manton Catalogue and they claim to have the Vickers sporting gun agency for India from memory. I know its a long shot but I wonder if 40 years later there are any records of the rifles that the Tanzania Game Department purchased, which would...

Just a note that i am still running this Vickers and Vickers Armstrong center fire sporting rifle survey of surviving examples. I still have very few in my data base, so if you have an example you have seen that you can post, that would be great. Thanks. Regards AlanD

Interesting advertisement. Do you have a publication date for the hunting book? Regards AlanD

In the sporting field Vickers are best known for the .22 Martini action rifles they made, used mainly for target shooting but also for sport. Vickers were the main competitor to BSA with thier .22 Martini action rifles. Vickers made many thousands of these .22 Martini rifles from the early...

I am interested in the bolt action center fire sporting rifles made by Vickers and from 1920 Vickers Armstrong, between the wars. The three main calibers offered would appear to be .242, .318 and .404. However, there may have been other calibers offered such as .30/06. I am building up a data...