TIGER DAY STARS This is our Matilda IIa, which had a 7.92 mm Besa machine-gun in place of the Matilda II’s 7.7 mm Vickers. It was delivered on 28 May 1941 by North British Locomotive Company, who eventually delivered 564 of the 2,987 Matilda IIs. There’s less than a month to go (& not many tickets available) until it’ll take to the arena alongside other WWII tanks, living history displays – & more - 20 September. Click the link in the comments below to book your tickets today. | The Tank Museum

We Tested This Vickers Machine Gun On A Firing Range

This is the Vickers .303 machine gun! @chalkehistoryfestival #historytok #history #interestinghistory #learnontiktok #edutok #chalkehistoryfestival | Absolute History

"In terms of ultimate robustness and reliability in the 1914 period, you cannot beat this thing..." Dan Snow is at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds to meet British firearms expert Jonathan Ferguson. They discuss the impact of the Vickers machine gun during the First World War. Watch 'The Sharp End: Testing Weapons of War Part 2' on History Hit TV: https://access.historyhit.com/what-s-new/videos/the-sharp-end-part-2 | History Hit