Twin Bren mount

Richard Farrant · #1 25-03-03, 21:14

I wonder if anyone can help. I am looking for info on a twin Bren gun mounting, PLM. One of my clients has requested his single mount (for a Humber Scout) is doubled up. On inspection it looks like the two cross bars that have the actual gun mounts clamped on, are probably replaced with longer ones. This is what I need to confirm. Also the front bar is in fact a tube whereas the rear one is solid. The rear bar also has a rear sight attached to the LH end, there is no front sight, it would be assumed that this would have been affixed the the end of the front cross bar (tube).

If anyone has good drawings or photo of a twin Bren mount they would be appeciated.

Many thanks,
Richard

Jon Skagfeld · #2 26-03-03, 01:35

Richard: I tried to scan and transmit several images from Dugelby's book "The Bren Gun Saga", but your e-mail is blocked for replies so I don't know what to do in order to help.

Perhaps you could e-mail me personally at jon132@rogers.com and possibly the scans can go through.

Regards

Richard Farrant · #3 26-03-03, 22:23

Quote:

Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld
Richard: I tried to scan and transmit several images from Dugelby's book "The Bren Gun Saga", but your e-mail is blocked for replies so I don't know what to do in order to help.

Perhaps you could e-mail me personally at jon132@rogers.com and possibly the scans can go through.

Jon,
Thanks for the reply, I have emailed you, sorry about the blocking.
Richard

Hanno Spoelstra · #4 20-01-07, 20:23

Unidentified personnel in a Humber Mk. I scout car of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment, England, 20 April 1944

Credit: Lieut. Donald I. Grant / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-188675

mudeng · #5 21-01-07, 16:30

If you contact the librarian at the tank museum Bovington, they have a spare parts manual for the Scout. There is an exploded diagram and drawing of the PLM mounting in this.
I know I had them, and lent them to somebody who disappeard with a lot of my reference material.

George Moore

Richard Farrant · #6 21-01-07, 17:32

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Originally posted by mudeng
If you contact the librarian at the tank museum Bovington, they have a spare parts manual for the Scout. There is an exploded diagram and drawing of the PLM mounting in this.

Thanks George,

In fact this is a thread I started 4 years ago. The job was done shortly after. I manufactured new clamps and cross bars to replicate the existing ones. You may have seen the Humber in question.

mudeng · #7 21-01-07, 19:58

I guess I wasn't looking at the dates of the reponses too well.
Yes I have seen photos of the Humber, and a beautiful job too.

I started researching Humbers years ago for modelling purposes, Scale Link have a 1/24th kit that I made the master pattern for.

IWM has some 1/10 models of all the Humbers, made by their apprentices, and very nice models they are too, with rubber Dunlop tyres.

Unfortunately a lot of my earlier reference material went walkies, though I still have enough, and since then, Bovington turned up a 2 1/4" square photo of the plate drawings. A bit hazy, but you can make some details out.

All you guys out there are very knowledable, and I am always looking for details of British wheeled AFV's, and softskins.
My main interest is early war and BEF, though I have done a lot on carriers, thanks again to this site. The re-build shots were useful as I am making master patterns for detailing the engine bay for a company called Resicast. These are intended to detail the Tamiya UC kit.

Thanks again, though not always acknowledged, this site is very useful to the modelling fraternity.

George Moore