Here’s a question for you US Forumers following a request where I was asked recently where someone could obtain a rare L54 Bren for his collection……….. Those Bren parts kits…. Are they readily available and are they cheap? The next question is this. What would happen if you welded the body together again? Not in a way to make a rebuilt gun, but in a way that would look half decent but maybe not work? In other words, it’d still be a dewat (or deactivated) but not functioning.

Where I’m heading is this……… One of/maybe the rarest of the ‘official’ Bren guns is the MACHINE GUN, DP, .303” BREN L54A1. You know the thing, looks good, white markings but useless. A bit like a mickey-mouse watch. Good to look at but useless for telling the time……..

With a half decent parts kit, a Bren collector could complete his collection by making up a passable representation of a rare DP Bren. To be honest, once the kit was fully converted to DP spec, even the remainder of the parts, such as the barrel and breech block would be beyond any sort of serviceability in any case

It’s just a thought but anyone over in the US care to pass comment…….
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