www.MG42.us

Ok, it's about halfway down this page, this is a series of pictures of the Tula museum, at the famous (and very very old) arsenal in Russia. There's a wonderful display case with two Russian 1910 maxims, the wooden device for seating the rounds in the belt I've previously seen, and.... a belt loader! It's in the process of loading belts, with the rounds then going to the wooden device, and into an ammo box. Pretty cool display!

http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2009 ... ms-museum/

Looks like the much more commonly seen Swiss belt loaders most of which were converted first from cloth belt loaders to metal belt loaders and then to MG51 belt loaders. I think the design was originally from VSM or one of the early maxim companies. I've seen other loaders of that design from other countries. I think the Belgians had a loader like that too......not sure who else.

Frank

Yeah, it looks like the pre-war standard ones to me, too-