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    New 1945 MA bren barrel

    I picked up a new bren barrel this week. Its new straight from 1945.
    Its marked MA on all the parts but its a MK2 barrel and its also marked LT. Any Idea what the LT refers too?
    I did not know that Lithgowicon was turning out Mk2 bren barrels I had thought they only made Mk1 bren stuff

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    Yep, you're right, they did produce Mk2 barrels for cheapness and at the same time started to produce other cheapened Mk2 type components that were a bit of a mix and match sort of thing. Bipods and barrel locking nuts being a couple that I can think of.

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    Most of Lithgows Barrel production was the Mk2 Inglis type. I haven’t got access to my records at the moment but they didn’t make many Mk1 long cone barrels and never made the short cone.

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    Prompted by fellow member ZGB, I eventually got my computer charged up and some details.

    The last Lithgowicon long cone Mk1 I have record of is barrel number 15833, Date scrubbed and from gun number A6664. The first Lithgow Mk2 I have record of is barrel number 16578 dated 1’43 and from gun number B1276.

    It’s pretty straight forward to work out the date the change occurred but it’s impossible to work out which guns had Mk1 barrels originally. There were 2 production lines running at the same time with allocated blocks of serial numbers. For example Barrel No 16578 (1’43) was installed to gun B1276 but Barrel No17369 (2’43) was installed to A7353.

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    Afternoon all, here is a 1943 Lithgowicon Bren Mk1M with a mk1 barrel that came my way a while back. Came and went very quickly unfortunately, I will dig out the S/N.

    It came with its Bandiana Depot marked transit box, nice example that appeared to have seen very little use indeed.

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    It looks like it maybe one of the 50s FTRd guns or an original gun with an earlier barrel fitted. Originally it would have had two of the Lithgowicon mk 2 type barrels.

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    The SN is 8976, but looking at the barrel it has had a previous SN xxxx out.

    No FTR markings from memory, did Australiaicon Mark its Brens with FTR and rebuild date?

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    The Aust FTR markings were on the left side where the barrel nut closes down. Know Bandiana very well. It was the Armourers Training Centre at the big Base Workshop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    The Aust FTR markings were on the left side where the barrel nut closes down. Know Bandiana very well. It was the Armourers Training Centre at the big Base Workshop.
    In that case no FTR markings on this one, the box was an inch deep in cosmolineicon. It was like the Bren had been greased up for long term store, then loads more had been dumped in on top to cover the whole box contents too...

    I would assume the 6/68 is when it went to store...
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    Geez Clarky that Bren looks a pearla but the pink wall paper mate that really makes it stand out LMAO

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