If it does run, it would sure roar...in the close bush...
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If it does run, it would sure roar...in the close bush...
Cheers for the pic Kev, its the clearest one of the Owen foregrip mod ive seen, normally theres a hand in the way. I wish i was a machinist as that would look right nice on my Mk 3! It just so happens is I have a NOS Owen foregrip squirreled away somewhere...
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Tom
That spacer bears no semblance to reality - or necessity. What is it? A heat-sink or what?
No idea, they all seam to have them.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7...elipad%201.jpg
I was wondering if it's some part of a vehicle or AA mount that they found a way to cobble a Owen grip to.
https://laststandonzombieisland.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/malay-and-new-zealand-soldiers-on-a-jungle-patrol-c1957.jpg
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-1962-an-anti-terrorist-patrol-in-malaya-up-to-their-armpits-in-the-99799162.html
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Tom
Cropped photo of B Company on patrol Malaya.
Credit - Robert Bonners book 'Jungle Bashers'.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...48dd5tha-1.jpg
Same pattern 'heat sink'
Also have an Owen grip squirreled away Tom :-)
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Yep, you're both right. Heat sink.....? No need as the grip is well away from the piston and gas cylinder. Could it be a simple spacer to, well....., space the grip? Both pics show the blokes wearing what look like jackets instead of the usual issue JG shirts. No webbing either except for a water bottle. Any ideas where he might have stuck his extra magazines?
I wonder if it's the same gun personally as I can't see the bipod or backsight either.
Looks like I'll have to get these papers back pronto to show the official instruction.
Pic above is Manchester Regiment.
1st pic I posted was Royal Lincoln Regiment.
THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY, 1948-1960 (D 88040)
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Peter the reference to 'heat sink' was tongue in cheek :-)
Not sure as Tom has mentioned if it was adapted from another bit of kit to mate the Owen grip to the Bren ?
Here's another one (btm rh corner)-
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...8xayussr-1.jpg
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All points taken on board KG. But I never saw an Owen grip on a Bren in real life although to be fair, only ever saw a couple of the real thing too in my time. They were definitely in use in Borneo along the ridges and watchtowers. Manchesters and Lincolns were VERY early......, pre 1954/55 I'd guess. I don't know how early (but someone will tell me..........). Maybe these pre-dated the official introduction. But in any case modifications to weapons are tightly controlled for obvious safety reasons
The Manchesters are in the time frame you mention and the Lincs picture is dated Nov 1957 .
However the one below is a close up of a pic Tom give a link to from Borneo in the 60's with the same arrangement on an L4.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...cqailuw5-1.jpg
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