Anyone left behind...................

[Peter Laidler]

Just a quick one for the old CSP forumers on site. Apart from the one obvious highly regarded and literate subscriber, did we leave anyone of note behind on the old contaminated site?

Kind thoughts to all over this Happy Easter weekend

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[englishman_ca]

Shhhh, they might hear you!

[Peter Laidler]

Nice side picture E in Ca! That's one bit of machinery that I NEVER tire of shooting. Sheer poetry in motion.........., the magnificent Bren

[krinko]

If you are going to make left handed remarks about my friend, I'm going to have to ask---Why do you want to start a fight?
Hmmmmmmm?
-----krinko

[englishman_ca]

Holy smoke Krinko, and I thought that my Bren was hard on the wallet. With a toy like that it woudn't take long to blow a whole pay check! Or do you reload

[Peter Laidler]

A) the matter never even entered my head Krinko and
b) what exactly IS the thumbnail? Make, Calibre, Origin etc
c) Is that you and your Bren E in Ca? Origin and Mark please? Not clear from photo.

[Paul S.]

I'm guessing but it looks to be a WWII vintage 20mm anti-aircraft Bofors (or is it Orlekin ???). How far wrong am I?

[cary m2a]

You mean N!@#%*B ?

Cary

[englishman_ca]

c) Is that you and your Bren E in Ca? Origin and Mark please? Not clear from photo.

Yes, that is my happy face behind the Bren. The Bren was mine in as much it was mine to cherish and care for, to feed, to clean, to talk sweetly to whenever I had a stoppage.

Pic was taken one spring morning at a WWII reenactment. What you cant see in the photo is the blood on my face. We got ambushed by Jerry as we came down a road ack-ack. So some ran left, some ran right. Me, I dove straight into the ditch at the side of the road cradling the Bren in front of me. That is one big frikin mag sticking up from the Bren. Mag and my nose met and I saw stars. Happy to report that the Bren suffered no damage whatsoever and the blood cleaned off it with a wet rag.

The Bren is an early Inglis Mk.I with the dovetail on the left side for the indirect fire sight and is the property of the Museum of Applied Military History here in Ontario. Bren is 100%, select fire with a blank fire kit installed. We did our battle scheme that weekend on CF Base Borden training grounds which is of course a certified range for full auto. Woohoo!

A mag doesnt last very long when things get exciting, so I had mags ready in my pouches, in my small pack, down the back of my pants the rest of the chaps in the section had mags shoved in their pockets and down the front of their battledress ready to pass over to me. All to feed the Bren.

I have put ball rounds through it at a museum machine gun shoot and it is indeed a pleasure to shoot. The delay in lock time with an open bolt takes a bit of getting adjusted to, but I was suprised just how accurate it was using repetition. Fig 11 targets stood no chance.

I own this one.

Also a Mk.I made by Inglis (common as muck over here ). An on going project. Mostly complete now with all JI marked parts.

In WWII they made them at the John Inglis washing machine factory on Brown's Line in Toronto, which is five minutes from the old Long Branch plant. I believe that they also made Browning Hi Power pistols.

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