The_Yellow_Ardvark
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This box, I ahve had a few weeks now.
But today I aquired to what it was made for.
It is a .303 ammo box. It would contail 3 feet off cloth belted .303 rounds.
In WW1 a Vickers machine gun crew would like 9 of them together, so long belt.
The saying:
The whole 9 yards.
Comes from this.
The vickers was so well made. In a trail one gun fired 1,000,000 rounds, with out an issue. Al the crew did was kept the water topped up, belts fed and some parts oiled.