Anti-aircraft leg for Mk1 Bren Tripod
 

Im looking for one or both pieces of the anti-aircraft two-piece leg for the Mk1 Bren tripod. If you have some orphaned pieces available, please let me know.

Each piece is 26” to 28” long.

One of the early AA manuals (I think it was 1941) instructed that those legs were to be thrown away. Trying to run around a stand shooting at an aircraft was too slow. Instead, the gun was merely shot from the hip in a hosepipe method.

Peter Laidler, a very experienced armourer from the UK, also speaks to the folly of taking on an aircraft that sports 20mm aircraft with a .303 LMG.

Good luck in your search...those are not easy pieces to find.

Personally I am searching for the elevating mechanism for the tripod. I picked up a mk2 CCM made, Cdn marked tripod but it has no T&E nor the stops.

Using the SMLE as the leg looks way cooler!

It’s hard to argue those points Rob. I guess the leg for my tripod was one of the ones that got thrown away per the orders!

Harry, you are absolutely right! Unfortunately I don’t have an SMLE either.