Indians For Guns

I am interested in the bolt action center fire sporting rifles made by Vickers and from 1927 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 base of serial numbers to try to estimate the total number of these sporting bolt action rifles that Vickers marketed. I have read that the actions were made by DWM the rest of the rifle being completed by the trade rather than Vickers.

Therefore if you have a Vickers sporting bolt action rifle, please post the details here, any photos showing proof marks especially appreciated. Many thanks.

Regards

AlanD
Sydney

Anyone?

Regards

AlanD
Sydney

in India .404 is most common as far i know. but not the vickers.

Anyone?

There must be some Vickers or Vickers Armstrong bolt action rifles in India somewhere!

Regards

Alan

Hi AlanD, Vickers was probably through Manton and one more Dealer of Mumbai. Both of them stopped there business in 1950s.
Vickers model in bolt action ??? I am not sure about its popularity at time but I at all it sold then for surely with some landlords and Kings. There is a site for Rajpur rulers and kings of that Era and their present family. You can post in that site and with luck you may get some results.

Hi Alan, I can only fetch this page from my known. Also a piece of information I got, that Mayurbhanj, Tripura, CochBihar, Rewa etc Royal family's were the notable customers of Manton and Rodda. Also these families collection of heavy caliber hunting Rifles are tremendous. I would suggest you to contact these families and hopefully you will get some result.
Extremely sorry that not able to provide you much help in this matter.

Thank you for the information.