West Au Merriden museum Sept '18

[CINDERS]

Will post a few pics at a time I took a fair few,
#1 3rd 303 down was found on the Kokoda track & brought back to Au.
#2 Mrs Cinders with the above (sorry about the pic my phones not much chop)
#3 Some fakers filling up spaces
#4 Some of their ordnance of various calibers they had heaps, mines, grenades, rockets on & on.....
#5 Nicely packaged SLR did they ship them like this!
#6 Same different angle

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[browningautorifle]

The SLR seems to be in a Rifle Team type of transit case...those weren't how they were shipped. They'd appear in a reusable cardboard box in a plastic bag in short term preservation(oil)... The EIS would come in a crate of each, slings, bayonets, pull throughs...so on...

The old Kokoda piece seems to have been demobed before discarding. Bolt thrown away...to avoid reuse by the enemy.

[Woodsy]

New SLR's out of Lithgow in the '70's and early '80's came packed in a plain brown cardboard box with the polystyrene moulded inner, all items in plastic bags. Contents were; rifle, magazine, sling, bayonet and scabbard. I had a few pass through my premises at about NZ$2400 each.

[RASelkirk]

That cannon round 2nd from the left looks like the 4" naval shell I posted a few months back!

Russ

[Paul S.]

Do you think they'd notice if I walked off with the Owen Gun? I wouldn't mind having one.

[CINDERS]

Will let the pics tell the story unless there is a special note from our visit there it is quite the place I wish we had more than an hour there may go up there in a car with the wife and stay o/night there.

[CINDERS]

Last lot for a bit......
Sorry for the pics of the Huey camera on phone crud also not forgotten out ties to the US in NVN just a small part however they did have a pic of an interrogation of a VC whist he was dangling upside down from a Huey, not one that the public would agree to. I did get to ride in a Huey as a cadet at Northam Army camp in 1972 it was quite the experience with the doors open and the pilot throwing the thing all over the sky especially when doing tight turns got a good view of the ground or sky!!!!

[mrclark303]

It looks like a superb museum Ron. The sort of place you could happily spend an entire day.

I'm always surprised how compact the Owen Gun is, it all makes perfect sense when you handle one though, a very useful bit of kit in the jungles of SE Asia.

[mrclark303]

Are they kept in a live state Ron, or do they have to be deactivated?

[CINDERS]

Sadly they are all deact's you will see later with the Valentine tank how the barrel is bulged near the muzzle rendering it also of note is I was told an up grade to the Bren gun carrier done by the Aussie's putting a 2pdr gun on the back and putting covers over the driver & front gunner as the cannon whilst firing 360 more than likely was to be firing over their heads what that would do to ones hearing post some tomorrow.