Forum for discussion by serious collectors of Bren LMG, accessories, ammunition, and accoutrements
Forum for discussion by serious collectors of the semi-automatic Bren LMG, accessories, ammunition, and accoutrements
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Veronica Foster (popularly known as “Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl“) was the Canadian equivalent of the American cultural icon Rosie the Riveter,...
1939/1942 Bren LMG Small Arms Training (Vol. 1 Pamphlet 4) (Light Machine Gun - 1939 & 1942 Manuals (Click PIC to Enlarge)
Good day one and all, I've been puting together a register of Bren guns and tripods for the purposes of reaserch and general intrest. Theres...
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A friend has a parts set with the torch cut receiver. He has cut out reside from the cutting torch and assembled the receiver parts on the butt...
While gathering information for my BREN drawings I've come across two different patterns for the connection between the butt-slide and the butt. ...
Hi all, I'm new here (well, officially), and I'd like to introduce myself. I'm a mechanical engineer by profession (for more than thirty-five years,...
Hello guys, I recently bought a Mk2 (I think) bren gun tripod but there is 1 part missing and 1 part wrong. The front pivot mount & the rear...
Hi all. Hopefully this is a simple question. Does the gas cylinder locking bar (GCLB) serve any purpose other than to index the gas system and/or...
Hi all. New to this website, and new to the Bren. I have a buttstock that is missing the metal butt plate. It is definitely not a Mk I. It looks...
I've been wanting a Bren like crazy since I first became interested in firearms again about four years ago. I had put off buying a deact Bren for...
This recently came from a UK Militaria dealer, an Italian Breda Bren spare barrel holdall. It is only really just a copy of the UK/Canadian version....
This empty transit chest recently came from a UK militaria dealer and is in reasonably good condition, for it's age. I am thinking that it is of...
These Bren slings were sold to me as new old stock Australian "long Le Enfield/Bren slings" that had been in storage for many years. While the...
I noticed this thing on eBay which is thought, by the vendor, to be for use with the Bren. Has anyone who has used a Bren any knowledge of the item,...
I have these 4 Bren spare barrel holdalls which I recently purchased at a militaria fair and I was wondering if Forum members would be able to help...
I picked up this Bren mag with the apparently rare to find FTR marking. There is a partial abbreviated date after the FTR mark which I think is 53...
Would this Bren be a British conversion to 7.62mm L4 series or is it another conversion such as South African because of the unmodified butt plate?
I have come across this Bren mag catch which appears slightly unusual in that it seems to have been made out of 2 pieces of metal. The outer part...
I have this Bren mag tin which when it came to me was missing it's handle and needed a paint strip and repaint due to rust. The tin had apparently...
Here are some pictures of my Australian Lithgow (M.A.- Munitions Australia) Bren, U.K. deactivated, which I've owned for about a year or so. Although...
Is this a genuine Bren barrel handle perhaps made this way as a wartime economy measure or is it something that has been produce at home by...
A recent arrival to my collection, a MK1 double dovetail Bren has almost all the markings highlighted in white paint which I haven't seen before on a...
Did The Daimler Motor Co manufacture/assemble complete mk2 Brens or did they just manufacture the main bodies, as part of the Monotype Group, as Ian...
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