Mother of all Bren Accessories

[LesterH]

There is a twin Brengun AA mount . On display at the Imperial War Musem at Duxford Airfield Cambridgeshire. The guns are DP Dovetail brens. The mount is fitted with a spider site.
I think for non AA mount Brenguns the theory was to walk the fire on to the attacking aircraft by loading more tracer rounds. The drum mags obscured the iron site on the MK1 Bren.

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[BRK]

My dad was with the AIF 9th Div in Tobruk and told a story about a guy (Pte Maurice JENKINS) who was awarded an MM by manning a tripod mounted Bren who took on attacking Stukas. Dad was his loader and when the digger fired at the approaching planes they honed in on them. Like everybody else dad went for cover but the gunner stood his ground and kept firing with rounds bouncing all around him. The gunner survived, got his medal and much abuse from his fellow diggers for attracting the attention of attacking aircraft.

BRK

[Hal O'Peridol]

Picked up a Russian DT machine gun drum. Going to attempt to convert it for use on a Bren. It does load, and function with .303.....similar enough in shape and length to the original 7.62x54r..... if it doesn't work, only out about 30 bucks. Nice winter project.

[Peter Laidler]

Yes, the extended sights were on the twin bren vehicle mount and seat mount too

[Warren]

Kalvinator in London Ontario made 106,954 of the 100 round drums

[browningautorifle]

Excellent info Peter. My RSM in the training school in Wainwright AB used them when he first joined. '56? He had no such stories, more to the point he had almost no stories about them at all. Just that he had used them.

[Bob Womack]

And here I thought this was the ultimate Bren accessory:

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Bob

[Peter Laidler]

Is it yours Bob?

[Bob Womack]

Ach, noooo... It was one of me dry jokes.

Bob

[Warren]

The contract for the 100 round drums Bren from Kalvinator was terminated on October 31, 1943. The reason stated by official sources was the 20mm Polsun took over the roll of a more viable AA gun.