Bren Mk2/1

[Peter Laidler]

Does anyone else out there own a Mk2/1 Bren. It's a Mk2 Bren modified post-war at Enfield to incorporate the Mk1 type folding cocking handle. Two lots were done in 1948 and again in 1950 totalling 18,000 guns 'of both types' although another Enfield in-house report says that it was 20,000. I can only suspect that '...of both types' meant both the Daimler/monotype group and Inglis Mk2's

Mk2/1's converted at Enfield are marked FTR/48 or 50 on the right hand bodyside, with the figures '/1' added after the Mk2 nomenclature and re-proofed. Later when the drawings were sealed, this body modification was permitted at Base Workshops

I have to say that when these Mk2 guns were finished with Mk3 gun barrels and butts, they were difficult to tell apart

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