Who made this tripod?

[Peter Laidler]

I have heard of sling thinggies to carry these but in service I never ever heard of or saw such a beast. Saw hundreds of the tripods though but never a sling. The tripod wasn't the sort of thing used by a section on the move or advance so a sling would be redundant in any case. It was used in the defensive role really or in the OHF role. THey were all stored in an old hangar at the end of the vehicle sheds or under the raised firing point of out 25 metre range. Out of sight, out of mind!

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[Brit plumber]

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.

[peregrinvs]

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.

[Peter Laidler]

Bent wrench says that there's not much info out there on the tripods but there is a complete EMER relating to them and an illustrated parts list somewhere. 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!

[Peter Laidler]

The original Czech design was even worse! I think it was called 'the grasshopper' or something like that. Full of whistles and bells and.............. You onow the sort of thig, over engineered to the Nth degree. As I always say, common sense eventually prevailed and the big stuff was left to the big boys with their mortars and Vickers while the thing that the Bren excelled at, that of a section machine gun ruled the roost.

[Peter Laidler]

Good question Mike. I don't suppose there would be any ballistic difference between a Mk1 and 2 barrel but you'd probably notice it if you mixed them with a short Mk3 gun barrel. I expect the reason was just one of aesthetics really. Another example was the SLR/L1A1. Not to mix plastic and wood furniture.

Like I said, our job was to keep stuff serviceable and 'on the road' so to speak. So we'd do what was needed unless it said otherwise