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The number on the barrel locking nut is not the serial number for your gun so is irrelevant. It belongs to the gun with that number on the body. The barrel locking nut is numbered to the gun for...

Same here. It won't be far out from that - if at all!

Don't understand any of that thread (thread 160) Topfmine! What about a photo that might better ask the question............. Without a photo it seems to me that you have a bog standard K-reg Mk1A...

LB (light Bren, a Mk3)53860 - ordered at Enfield on order number 79/1952 for the UK War Dept/MoD as a batch of 1,100 guns. Don't know anything about the UE57 gun unless the others can add something.

There goes Kyte, another one who we didn't hear from again.............

Not much info for you. E208 was made for contract E-150/1939 dated 19-9-39 and it is a first stage intermediate Bren. Mathematically it was produced, probably in July/August 1940

Hopefully...

Just a bit of input on your particular Bren would be interesting enough to start a thread run. You - or anyone else for that matter - don't need to be regulars. Just think of what you could glean

There you go, GaryS from Carlisle - another transient forumer. Pick your brains, get a response and never heard from again. Not even a thanks as he closed the door....

Yours is one of the what we call Mk1A guns. Not an official designation but a designation attached to production guns AFTER the true Mk1 production and after the 6 intermediate stages of transition...

Nobody really knows for sure unless they've actually seen them all. But 1938 started somewhere around A0400 or so and ended around A6700 or so. 1937 would be up to A0400. So your example...

Yep, got that Vince and CSM Archer. But it's another one saved.

Surely something';s wrong somewhere CSM? It can't be a 6T Canadian number AND an Enfield 1940 gun can it? Or am I missing something?

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Doesn't ring any bells. A D in brackets? A picture would help

F-286 was the steel batch number

Mk3 guns only came with LB (Light Bren) prefix serial numbers. Some of the last had what were called codified numbers - but not from your era

OUCH.............. I bet that made the number stamps sing when he whacked them like that! The barrel nuts (and the catches) are diamond hard........... You'd shoot out a barrel before you wore out...

I can understand why the barrel nut wasn't cleaned up. They were diamond hard and a real PITFA to number! Best done with a scratchy pen or diamond drag cutter. If you stamped them prepare to...

Strange..... All Mk3's were numbered LB xxxxx except the late ones which were what we called the informative number type. A picture would be useful

F-8939 should bve what we call a 'last stage intermediate' That is the last stage of the transition between an original Mk1 Bren to the more common Mk1A. You's will (hopefully) be a full Mk1 with...

Gwildor, without knowing the master number on the rear of the body, we can't really get to the nitty gritty unless what you call the upper and lower are the body and butt slide - P7644. The 2885E...

T-69xx is very early 1943, say February or so................

Maybe it's time to mate up our lists again BP!

Just looked and it seems that I have a F 76xx as a true Mk1A. So there is a cross-over/criss contamination at the final changeover period. This...

I make the F-90-- into the 9050 range as being the last of the true intermediates BP.

All the different parts, such as butts and bipods etc were made to be fully interchangeable as assemblies. If a production/assembly lkine at, say Enfield, producing Mk1 guns was short of Mk1 butts...