Bren transit chest refinishing

[Peter Laidler]

Having seen a few in my time DD, they are pretty simply things to refurb. Mind you, we didn't waste too much time on them. But I suggest that if you want a 'proper job' then you start by taking it to a pine stripper (see local furniture renovator for details) and when it's totally stripped of paint, see what you've got. New internal bits are simplicity itself and the same furniture renovators will supply the horsehair matting/packing stuff.

Thereafter it's a case of a bit of wood patching or filling, priming and then paint with good old UK Military Deep Bronze Green available as a mix from a colour chip from your local paint shop. Then paint the inside, I seem to remember that thfront and rear internal faces came in grey or an orange colour, followed by a coat of linseed!

Zillions of the UK ones were made at Newbury by Elliots of Newbury together with Horsa gliders and parts and wartime utility furniture......, now very collectable apparently!

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