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I know the guy at MDW, the sod never told me he had one for sale, I usualy keep eye open on all the sites. A contact in Greece tellsme the Hellenic air force still has thousands of Brens in reserve so maybe one day....
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It was a miss matched 7.92, they had it at Beltring.......you wouldn't have wanted it anyway 
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This is the trouble when things are in short supply. You have to make do with a substandard gun. Hope the Greek Army has a clear out one day. ( Some long Garand
bayonets were released by the Greeks last year).
Thanks for the info. Lester
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It'd be nice if IMA would do the same thing with L4s. Even the parts are near on impossible to find here in the States!
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Originally Posted by
LesterH
This is the trouble when things are in short supply. You have to make do with a substandard gun. Hope the Greek Army has a clear out one day. ( Some long Garand bayonets were released by the Greeks last year).
Thanks for the info. Lester
One would think there could hardly be a better time for that than now!
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Originally Posted by
Warren
The US government ordered 40,000 7.92 Brens from Inglis for shipment to the
USA and then to be forwarded to General Chang Kai shek. The Brens were to be shipped in 4 lots of 10,000 each. The USA abruptly cancelled the order a few months into the contract. General Chang then asked the
Canadian government to pick up the order and send him the Bren's.
The influence of the various communists and fellow-travellers in the Roosevelt administration? Not forgetting the First Lady of course...
“There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.”
Edward Bernays, 1928
Much changes, much remains the same.
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All these rumours of the vast stocks of whatever you wish to dream up, languishing in Greek Ordnance dumps, remind me of the vast amounts of stream locomotoves supposedly languishing in Britains strategic reserve. If they REALLY had this stuff, they'd have got rid of it or be getting rid of it. And furthermore, there'd be evidence to back it up
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Like all of the Garands and M1 carbines sold/returned fairly recently (past 3-4 years) to the US CMP? Real enough, those... If there's Greek BRENs I suspect no one's offered much for 'em.
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Warren
Inglis also produced a 30-06 Bren in VERY LIMITED quantities (experimental or tool room quantities) however records on that are very scarce and only a few specimens exist in
Canada. The 30-06 Inglis Bren was produced with a 30 round mag as well. Some of the magazines have survived.
Does anyone have any technical information or diagrams on how the Bren was converted to .30.06? I would love to convert one of my Bren parts kits to fire .30-06 as it's more available and cheaper than .303 British.
Did Inglis use the 7.92 magazine or was a different magazine utilized?
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Same 'type' of magazine but longer from front to back due to the .30-06 round.
ATB Kevin
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