In this video I’m pleased to be joined by my friend Dr Nic Jenzen-Jones, Nic is an arms historian and the Director of Armament Research Services (ARES), the Editor of Armax: The Journal of Contemporary Arms, and the founder of Helios House Press. He has recently published a new book, ‘Buckshot & Beehive‘, examining the 40mm anti-personnel rounds developed during the Vietnam war.
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Historian, researcher and armourer Vlad Onokoy joins me to talk about his exciting new book about Zastava AK-pattern rifles! Vlad explains how he came to write his new book and talks us through the process, combining in-depth research, first hand accounts and hands on experience. The new book sheds new light on Zastava’s history, busts some long-held myths and highlights interesting variants and little-know prototypes.
Last month while Matt was visiting the Cody Firearms Museum for their Arsenals of History Symposium he had the pleasure of meeting lots of great people from the historic firearms world. One person he met was none other than Ian of Forgotten Weapons.
Ian was kind enough to suggest doing an interview to share and highlight our work here at TAB with his subscribers. Matt discussed the idea behind TAB and some of the things that we cover.
We very much appreciate Ian’s support of our project and opportunity to chat on camera about our work. Thanks Ian!
Richard Fisher, the director of the Vickers Machine Gun Collection and Research Association, was kind enough to invite us down to take a look at his collection of Vickers guns. Richard is a fantastic source of information on the Vickers, and British small arms more generally, and I’ve picked his brains on numerous occasions in the past so it was a real pleasure to meet him in person and discuss the collection.
I thought the best way to explain what the collection and research association does is to discuss it on camera with Richard, so as a result we have TAB’s first ever interview. Incidentally, it’s also the first on-camera interview I’ve ever conducted!
A pair of Vickers Guns dating from 1915 at the Vickers Machine Gun Collection (Matthew Moss)
Richard’s impressive collection spans much of the Vickers’ history with representative examples of not just the many different types of Vickers that were produced but also the accoutrements and equipment that went along with the guns. The collection endeavours to bring together all the weapons, kit and equipment that a British Army section that operated the Vickers would have carried – during both World Wars.
Vickers Machine Gun Collection (Matthew Moss)
Vickers Machine Gun Collection (Matthew Moss)
Vickers Machine Gun Collection (Matthew Moss)
Vickers Machine Gun Collection (Matthew Moss)
The collection is open to visits from interested individuals and parties and is often shown at history events around the UK. Richard’s website is one of the best sources of information, manuals and documents on the Vickers available and is well worth checking out.
We’d like to thank Richard for inviting us down and for speaking to us about the collection. In the future we will hopefully have more videos featuring the collection.
The Armourers Bench 