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Bren Mag boxes: rare variant
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11-26-2010 06:48 AM
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Not particularly rare Tankie. I expect that within a few days you'll have one via some of the Bren fiends here.............
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Not particularly rare Tankie. I expect that within a few days you'll have one via some of the Bren fiends here.............
Pete, I have never even seen one before, let alone handled one! Like yourself, I have inspected, repaired & modified thousands of the NORMAL bren & LMG mag boxes.
But I have never encountered a 7.92 Variant box before, even on the collectors market!
Yep, I WOULD like one if any of our erstwhile bren affectionardos would like to part wuith one!..........Please!
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I dont mind what stenciling is on them, I just want one for some Czech ZB mags!
The ones on Ebay look to be in EXCELLENT condition!
Anybody got a decent one they dont mind parting with?.................
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That top box looks like it was on the beach with BP's T&E gear!
If you want to preserve that T&E gear BP, you ought to leave it in a tin of old engine oil for 2 years while the salt leeches out. Then, once a month or so, get the oil boiling hot and allow it to cool
Last edited by Peter Laidler; 11-28-2010 at 07:10 AM.
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On the subject of the 7.92mm mag boxes KG and all. In Malaya and Australia we had some 7.92mm Bren guns and mag boxes captured from the VC. The boxes were compartmentalised internally widthwise, as per the usual boxes but to take up the slack for the shorter 7.92mm mags, there was a lengthwise ribbed spacer along the box. The section behind the ribbed spacer carried the spare parts wallet (the SPW). Whether it was meant to carry the SPW or not I can't be sure but it was tucked in there. That would make sense because unlike the holdall which is left behind, the SPW is always carried by the second of the gun team. These were obviously converted Bren boxes, not done locally by the slopes as they were in that very matt kahki colour with similar Chinese writing. In fact I'd never seen one of the smaller purpose made boxes until I was shown one in the early 80's.
Has anyone ever seen a magazine box like this and wondered what it was?
Oh, go on then....., I knew someone would ask......... If on ops you leave the holdall behind with the platoon kit, where do you keep the second barrel? The gunner or the No2 carries it tucked across his front, tucked behind the top of his pouches, under his cross straps. If not that, rolled into the poncho roll across his, er........, bottom. I don't know if that's how the VC carried them but they certainly weren't carrying them like that when ours were captured
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Thanks for sorting out my 7.92 canadian/chinese mag box still has pride of place thanks kev.
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