You have to hunt around, it's cheaper some places than others. Far MORE expensive if you look in the wrong place...Quote:
Originally Posted by CGP1999
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You have to hunt around, it's cheaper some places than others. Far MORE expensive if you look in the wrong place...Quote:
Originally Posted by CGP1999
Can I be brutally frank again and.......... how can I say this diplomatically and without hurting anyones feelings. If you're thinking of buying the FIRST Bren Gun Saga, then don't even bother. Spend your money on something useful like a chocolate teapot. That version was desperately wanting. The second version was, er....., a bit better. Or what is called a heavyweight book with lightweight content. Only my opinion of course. I realise now that I have now put myself into the same category of people that I was warned about when I first started technical writing many years ago. That is this......... The first person who reads your book/paper/article etc etc immediately knows more than you do. That's because he now known all that you have just written PLUS the tiny amount he knew before'
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If I had to suggest a good all round book - or books, I'd suggest that you get the Skennerton SAIS booklet and some of the technical handbooks. The Skennerton is the best of the small booklets and the ultimate 'bench book' type ready reckoner in my humble opinion. Then I'd start reading forwards from the last page of the Bren Gun thread on this forum
Sorry if I have upset anyones feelings. But just telling the truth as I see it - or have read it in this case.
Let's add to the confusion of Manufacturers...Quote:
Originally Posted by Brit plumber
the WW2 Diamler/Monotype MkII guns, and post WW2, BRNO, Canadian Arsenals Limited & SAF Kanpur MkIII, IA, IB & IC "L4" pattern guns....
Are Daimler & Monotype technically the same, or different assembler, manufacturer?
Just a minute chaps, Thread 13, para 3 is just widening the ambiguity! The way I interpret it, it reads like CAL made Brens post war and made Mk3's.
My understanding is that they are the same but often people get confused by the different markings and so assume that they are different manufacturers. I stand to be corrected.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee Enfield
There is no indication that CAL ever manufactured MkIII brens (except the captions in BGS- which are shown as wrong in the quoted test reports).Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
CAL took over left over Inglis componants and manufactured spares and participated in the "rimless" 280, 280/30, t65, 7.62 trials post war.
Whether they manufactured new (Mk2 pattern / 8mm mkI) receivers is open to conjecture, but it seems doubtfully that they did much more than assemble existing Inglis manufactured main componants. Certainly the receivers used in the British "rimless" trials post war and illustrated in "the Bren Gun Saga" show Inglis manufacturer markings.
excellent thank you all once again.
just brought the Ian Skennerton book 303-in. Bren Light Machine Gun: Parts Indentification & Lists, Bren L.M.G. Series Notes, Exploded Parts Drawings, Descriptions, Accessories & Fittings. I am also going to get the osprey book on the bren (as an overview), as well as ask my local library if they can order in the brem gun sugar to borrow. hopefully it will be the start of getting on the right track regards to information.
Now if we can just get the milsurps goon squad to pay a visit to peters' (ex)publisher and get all of his original, irreplaceable, source materiel back we might eventually have a good bren book.
Monotype headed a consortium of companies making MkII Bren gun components. As regards the main components, Daimler made the receivers, Climax Rock Drill made the barrels, Hercules Cycles made the bipods and F Tibbenham made the furniture. Final assembly and testing was by Monotype - who also made some small components.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk
What I and I think Lee Enfield are getting at is are the MK2 Brens marked with a "D" on the receiver, indicating Daimler (for the receiver), made/assemble by the same group of companies to the MK2 Brens that just have a dispersal code marking on the receiver.Quote:
Originally Posted by peregrinvs