M2HB Cover part marked by John Inglis co.?
Heres a wierd one, I was working on my M2HB which has a mixed combination of parts on it from other guns, no real matching parts and while I was taking off the top cover I noticed this.
This is the top cover spring detent, which presses back up against the top cover to keep it under tension so it doesnt cut your fingers every time you want to put another belt in.
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Inglis made parts for the M2HB?
Can anyone confirm this?
JI is John Inglis for DEFINITE so I would say that they DID make that part .
Who knows WHAT else they made ?I know of Boys AT rifles,57mm Recoilless Rifles that odd AA Gun on the truck chassis and of course our beloved Brens and Hi-Powers.
Problem is to find some older folks who worked there and see what they remember of it all.
I once had a M1919A4 Browning made by Border City Industries in Windsor Ontario and a 20mm Oerlikon made by OTIS Elevator and was a partner in a Harvard Mk IV built by Canadian Car and Foundry.
Canada built NO END of neat stuff of necessity during WWII and did it WELL TOO.JR
RHIP Thanks be to all g*ds
At least my 3"pips" got me my own solo accomodation be it a tent or bivvy.In camp things were QUITE "civilized" too.Mind you I have sat down to more than a few meals with WHITE TABLECLOTHS on trestle tables sitting on canvas camp chairs under a Mopani tree with the mess steward wearing a WHITE mess jacket.Tucker was edible and WINE was served(AND ADDED TO YOUR MESS BILL TOO I MIGHT ADD)War is how you find it Rob.Only A/C engines were in daylight .DAKS airdropping supplies or US if we were on FIREFORCE and Allouette III C's doing resupplys or CASEVACS if we were unlucky.
We too worried about little"gift packages" on the roads but the indigenous weren't into IEDs.We however WERE into making bangs and I can show you a nice collection of pressure plates and pressure release as well as pull actuated switches etc.I have quite the selection and my"Piece de Resistance" was to wire up and blow 2 kms of hydro and telecom poles in Mocambique IN SEQUENCE.B/M came up and said"Canuck,do you KNOW what you are about here?""Yessir" sez me "watch this" and I touched the lead wires to a waiting radio battery...bam bam bam etc all the way up the LEFT side of the road(hydro pylons) all dropped ON THE ROAD.When it got to the end jumped the roadbed and came back towards me dropping all the Telecom pylons on the road too.B/M said,"okay,now all they have to do is come along alongside the road in the bush"!I gave him my very best Bill Martyn shark like grin and said"Please come over here Sir" and showed the dipstick all the Sov AP mines that I had run along in daisy chain fashion on one side of the axis of bangs and the pork and cheese 250gr plastic(and damned near undetectable) AP mines(400gr needed to trip and a REAL **** to lay IF you weren't careful) all down the Telecom side of the road.B/M accused me of being "diabolical" heh heh heh he HADN'T seen the two toilet cysterns I rigged with about 5kg EACH of those SOV TPSh TNT blocks(the 250 gr jobs).
All I can say is it would be THE FLUSH FROM HELL when you pulled the chain.
Yup,I DO love me bangs !!
How is the mess hall grub ? Everyone tells me that they STILL insist on everyone packing if you want to get fed.I HATE getting HP Sauce on my Hi Powers you see.
As we have previously discussed CARRY A VERY SMALL GUN AND A VERY LARGE SHOVEL and when in doubt DIG LIKE HELL FAST.Sage advice from RSM Jock Hutton "C" Sqn Rhodesian Special Air Service Reg't circa 1974.
Be CAREFUL out there and keep water and ratpacks in the greasepit too.
Cheers Bro,JR