Aircraft Machine Gun-serial no.

[Ken MacLean]

Could one of our armourers help here?

A poster on another forum has asked what the prefix letters 'BS' on a British aircraft machine gun serial number mean. The gun in question is the .303 Vickers Armstrong MkII** of WW2 vintage.

Serial number is six digits with prefix BS.

-Ken

[Hinrik]

Ken,

Not sure what it means, but I have a British .30 cal Browning WWII Aircraft machine gun with the serial number prefix "BY"

Regards

Hinrik

[Ravenhook]

Birmingham Smallarms ? ? I know an aircraft machine gun is hardly small, but they did make some sizeable things.