Who made this tripod?

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I believe it's 2 standard Rifle slings, not the X Strap. The X strap is from a ammo box carrier I think or possibly a universal harness as I've seen some with short straps and some with long. If the short straps are fitted, you couldn't even get it over a shoulder never mind on your back. Let's say that an entrepreneur came up with a story to sell scrap webbing at a profit.

It's a 'Bulk Load Carriage Harness, carrying, infantry, G.S.'.

Bulk Load Carriage: Harness

As you say, they got conveniently re-designated by militaria dealers at some point. I once managed to seriously cheese off a chap on the wwiireenacting forum when I pointed out that the 'Bren tripod harness' he was selling wasn't. The 'logic' of his riposte that I couldn't prove they had never been used to carry Bren tripods still makes me chuckle.

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Whoever designed it should have been tied to it and just before he was thrown into the sea, still attached to it, he should have been made to look at and inwardly digest the design of the simple .30 Browning tripod!

Designed in Czechoslovakia along with the gun I believe. I remember thinking when I got mine one that it was so overdesigned it could be German.