Available direct from the author: https://emmageeman.com/products/handbook-of-machine-gun-support-equipment-and-accessories-1895-1945-by-robert-g-segel Robert Segel, long-time editor of Small Arms Review magazine, has just published a book on machine gun accessories and equipment, and it's a very valuable new piece of reference material for the community. Mr. Segel has long been a machine gun collector, and has paid particular attention to accessories, tool kits, and that sort of ancillary gear.

The French Hotchkiss Model 1914 machine gun was the last of the Hotchkiss machine gun line born in the late 1800s. Model 1914 machine guns also armed early French combat tanks of the First World War including the famous Renault FT. This Hotchkiss M1914 is the same as the Weald Foundation Renault FT. This was described, by some, as the Wurlitzer design of machine guns in World War I. Here you can see a great video of a Hotchkiss Model 1914 machine gun owned by Battlefield Vegas. After a little TL

Watch team member Jake Auman dig up and preserve this hotchkiss artillery shell from the American civil war! DISCLAIMER: (the shell has already been professionally defused, drilled out, and flushed, it is completely safe) #history #civilwarhistory | Cape Fear Explorers