The MAGNIFICENT Bren

[Stevo]

The serial starts with 2CH.

[Brian Dick]

Badger,
Come on down and play in the Spring. I've got an Inglis Mk.II and an L4A3 in the works but it hasn't transferred yet. They're both restricted post samples here in the USA so we might as well shoot the s--t out of them!
Brian

[Badger]

Badger,
Come on down and play in the Spring. I've got an Inglis Mk.II and an L4A3 in the works but it hasn't transferred yet. They're both restricted post samples here in the USA so we might as well shoot the s--t out of them!
Brian

Regards,
Doug (Badger)

[Beerhunter]

Even one of those I'd love to have to sit out on the coffee table and drive the wife crazy,

D'yer mean like this. Needless to say, 'er indoors was out - I'm not that brave.

[stencollector]

I think the Bren section of milsurps is fast becoming my favorite section.

Peter was right in his first post....the light that radiates from these old girls is absolutely mesmerizing.

[Peter Laidler]

I have a very early (?) 'C' prefix 1940 Enfield Mk1 with its little legs folded up, on a nice oak base in my office. I give it an admiring wipe over every morning. It makes my day and attracts SO much attention.

My friend also has one. He's the Chief Engineer of a large chemical distillery and it's on a wooden plinth in his office, among 60 years of gleaming and polished apprentices trade and test pieces. He told me that it's the first thing that the trade representatives and visitors to his office make a bee line for. The old (and now few and far between) ex National Servicemen and Army reps. chatter with him for ages about them overr a few coffees. He reckons that it has created thousands and thousands of ££££'s in orders and custom.

Just as a matter of interest, if anyone is considering doing a gas cylinder change in the near future, then I think that they ought to speak to me first before they do anything. Because with a gas cylinder change you can VERY quickly get to the point of doom and beyond the point of no return.

[tiriaq]

This was with an Inglis Mk. II.

[Peter Laidler]

My dad let me fire a Bren when I was 9 and living at Chiseldon near Swindon. He let me have a go on automatic fire when his blokes were on the range at Bulford. I didn't care about the noise or not hitting the target very often. He told me that my Bren was a special one too! He confessed years later, when I was a school Cadet that while the rest of the blokes were firing LIVE, I was firing blank. And that's the reason I wasn't hitting the target. But I SAW the bullet holes and even told my mum about it.................... Now I suspect that he'd told the man in the butts to pull off a few sticky patches.

Guess what I did to my son on his first shoot with a Bren? Fond memories of a Bren and I've loved 'em ever since....................

[Brian Dick]

Ah, the problematic gas cylinder change. Peter's words are an understatement. I'm the voice of experience. Luckily, I don't think it's a job I'll have to do often.

[csmarcher]

Brian/Peter

What are the symptoms that would point to having to change the gas cylinder ??

Just curious

Gaz