Comments by "Geordiedog" (@geordiedog1749) on "Vickers "K" - For Aircraft and the SAS/Long Range Desert Group" video.

Was just about to mention that but thought I’d better check other posts first. The Lewis a s Savage guns they replaced were given to the Coal Scuttle brigade.
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@AndrewGivens I read somewhere that the ‘Projector’ did, in fact, shoot down an e/a! Just one though. Mainly it had its users running for cover. It seemed that the Crabs got first dibs on the best kit - especially the Bomber force. They replaced their Lewis guns with Vickers Ks then replaced them with .303 Brownings so they could bomb fields in the Ruhr Valley miles from anywhere and then get shot down on the way back without firing a single round. Meanwhile coastal forces and Harry Tates Navy were making do with Savage guns and five inch LA pieces marked 1892. They also got Madsden Guns? Potato Diggers they called them as they had a swinging cam along the barrel. WWI kit basically. Never a “Phoney War” for these guys. Mines and bombs and S Boats from day one. A school friend of mine had an uncle (one of the Tyne river pilots) who was on a collier in 1939 aged 17. He told us (impressionable young kids) that he was saved several times by a lad from Morpeth (who was a known poacher) on a Savage gun (first time I heard that name variant of the Lewis gun). He drove off a few Do17s with his very accurate shooting, apparently.
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@robshirewood5060 Didn’t they also get the turrets off Blackburn Rocs? Or was it from BP Defiants?
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