Original WWII British Oil Container: Can, Half Pint, Mk II M3 Grease Gun As the walnut fore stock

As the walnut fore stock blank no longer needed to be located into the receiver mortice slot

Army nomenclature is OVERSHOES

including later manufactured M/41s

Christian first met George Strakaty

and is generally considered the world's first general-purpose machine gun

Original WWII British Oil Container: Can, Half Pint, Mk II M3 Grease Gun As the walnut fore stockOriginal Item: The following oil containers were issued for use with British machine guns during the first and second world wars. All are original issue. (See Dolf Goldsmith, The Grand Old Lady Of No Mans Land, page 506.) Can, Half Pint, Mk II. Introduced during WW 1 in 1918 for use with the Vickers and Lewis machine guns, then used with all British machine guns. Expensively made with machined brass filler cap and dropping spout with its own cap