AUSTRALIAN ISSUED WW2 VICKERS MG OIL CAN CASE
Case for two BD0133 oil cans and an engineers oil can. condition is excellent. Military issue stamps to the top of the lid showing the broad arrow and D^D and dated 1945.
This leather case is commonly associated with the Vickers machine gun and the weapons manual from the 1930s indicates two of these cases were carried on the gun’s carrying limber: The case is made from high quality brown leather with a large box lid secured with a pair of blackened metal buckles: Loops are provided on each end for a carrying strap to be secured through: Most examples found today are missing this carrying strap and I do wonder if was normally issued or not! The back of the case has a set of four rivets set in a line across it: These are used to hold the internal fittings of the case. On the left is a permanently fixed leather shelf: A simple movable flap is fitted to the opposite side. The width of the case is exactly right to carry the half pint oil can: It seems that there were a variety of different packing configurations for this case with differing types and sizes of oil cans carried.