Hi everybody, I'm happy to be new on your forum. I'm sure that I will learn a lot informations on many subjects.
Exemple: do you have any info on ANM2 MKII .303 cal. made by Inglis here in Canada ?
thanks
MKII
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Hi everybody, I'm happy to be new on your forum. I'm sure that I will learn a lot informations on many subjects.
Exemple: do you have any info on ANM2 MKII .303 cal. made by Inglis here in Canada ?
thanks
MKII
Just a thought and wondering why there hasn't been an answer to this question yet. But what IS a AMN2 in .303" calibre......................?
Maybe if I/we knew, you'd get an answer. Or have I missed something?
Aha! Quick google, .303 Browning, aircraft mounted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
:runaway: Looks like one for our Canadian members- c'mon guys, no pressure....
Well why not just say a .303" Browning...................... We have a Vickers and a BSA made .303 but no Inglis
I had one in the collection in Gagetown NB. And I know Peter will probably recommend charges for this but even though it was marked DP I felt I had no choice but to fire it. I had to manufacture a mount group from a .30 cal tripod, pintle and modified T&E and there we were. I used the long lever bolt trip under the back and put a line on the sear slide trip on the right side. I have about 100 links so I set it up when we fired foreign weapons during a small arms instructors course. When I touched off, the 100 rds went in about two bursts, the whole line stopped and all heads turned towards me. OOPS!!! I guess the secret's out now! I had no more ammo so that was that. What a neat gun! By the way MKII, what info were you looking for?
Heres a thread by Clarke, look at the first pic, it shows a Inglis ANM2 in the test jig at the Inglis plant
Toronto Archives photo search on John Inglis Plant/bren guns
I've got a few parts from a BSA made gun which were salvaged from a gun as it was about to get the guillotine. No chance of saving the gun, the order was to destroy it so I got what I could.
One of ours will be test fired in the spring. It's been a long time cominmg but when it goes, you'll hear it. But high speed takes on a different meaning after doing the UK acceptance trials of the Dillon minigun.
ANM2 MKII .303 cal. made by Inglis
It's not much, but there some pictures and and a little information here.. DEWAT 1942 Inglis/Browning .303 [BAM145] - $2,100.00 : Broad Arrow Militaria
Inglis made a pile of them as well as did Border City Industries. I suspect the ones made at BCI were completed by Inglis as no dedicated line appears in the records of Inglis contracts awarded for wartime production. We also made a few Vickers guns (.303): around 100 to 125, and .50 Vickers barrels but again info is difficult to find and especially anything after late 1942 early 1943. Only to get some time to get into the thousands of plates of microfisch I have here and check things out. I have hard copy photocopies of the original BCI contracts here....in "the shed"(tm) along with the Bren contract in 8mm ordered by the USA???
While I have some ears: I need some info on Brig. Gen. E..A Ransford. He was head of the British purchasing commission and inspection to the USA and very early in the war moved to Canada to became head of weapons procurement for the UK in Canada. His office was in Quebec City, Canada. I have asked several of those who should know but no luck, so far. I'll post some pictures for the reason I would like some info on Ransford shortly.
I had a beautiful .30-06 Colt ANM2 many years ago. The rate of fire is around 1000 per minute which was OK for an air cooled gun in an aircraft. There was a buffer kit for adapting them to ground use so they didn't burn up too quickly.
I've come across his name in the documents I've been searched through in the last few months. But no specific biography.
We certainly had the name Ransford in documents at Warminster. He was associated with the Bren trials too. But SOOOOOOOO many documents and sooooooo little time left there.....
Attachment 45118
Any information on this modification for land use?
Border City Industries in Walkerville Ontario Canada received a contract on April 22nd, 1941 for 25,000 Browning Mk. II* aircraft machine guns and barrels
The Inglis contract was let on May 7, 1941. One line lists type 3 and the next line lists type 2 guns. This merits further investigation.
April 26 of 1941 was the start of the Boys production in Canada at Inglis and on April 25, 1941 the contracts were let to REL for: brackets, cases, telescope-sighting with leather end caps and connecting strap.
Sounds like 32 scopes but again further investigation is pending