Mk1 Bren magazine

[blitzkrieg]

All mine, I have 6 have two Enfield stamps, one on the mag housing and one on the mag cover, as well as random other production stamps.

[Flying10uk]

I have seen it suggested (on a well known U.K. dealer's website) that the E.U. is looking into the possibilities of introducing "restrictions" on the sale/transfer of weapon magazines within the European Union. I don't know any further details and exactly what is meant by "restrictions" is any-ones guess; does it mean ban???

[Brit plumber]

Let's see if they will restrict the sales of Wagons and spares after the latest terrorist attacks. When will they learn that restrictions and laws only apply to those who chose to follow them.

[Kev G]

[ZGB]

Thanks kev G for posting the pics of some of the Mk1 floor plates in my collection.
I asked Kev G to post the pics so that collecters can see it was not only ENFIELD that manufactured Mk1 floor plates, although i have not seen the Mk1 mag bodies manufactured other than ENFIELD, and also ZB produced .303 Mk1 mags for the IRISH contract and the IRAQ contract. The AUSTIN MOTOR CO Mk1 plate is the only one i have seen so far.

[blitzkrieg]

Fascinating, I had never heard of BSA or Austin floor plates, thanks for sharing!

[Flying10uk]

Did BSA and or Austin make the MK1 mag casing then as they made the floor plate? It would seem logical that they would?

[Peter Laidler]

BSA got large chunks of the production contract for the Bren because the as-was Major Shepherd (the S in STEN) had left the Army in 1938 and gone to work at BSA in order to help develop the .303" Browning for the RAF. He got BSA a lot of the new Bren work. When our 'local misunderstanding' with Germany broke out in Sept '39, Major Shepherd was called up again and went back to the Design Office at Enfield. Happy that he had fortuitously spread the Bren work load out a bit and all of the Colt Browning work. But his real claim to fame came with his next project.........................

Not a lot of people know that..........

[ZGB]

I have yet to see any MK1 mag bodies made by B.S.A. or AUSTIN, as you mentioned FLYING10 it would seem logical that if they have obviously tooled up to make the MK1 bottom plate to the relevant D.D.E. They would have produced the MK1 mag bodies, unless the change in drawing spec's affected the mag body first. I guess its a case of keep looking, you never know.

[Flying10uk]

I realise that with Bren mags you can find pretty much any combination of parts but am I correct in thinking that "officially" the MK1 floor plate was only ever fitted to the MK1 casing? The MK1* floor plate with indents/dimples found it's way "officially" onto any of the MKs of mag casing?