Rifle clip brackets

[super dave]

I was at my friends place the other day a the topic of the rifle clips came up and their mounting brackets. As I have a cab 13 I have seen the longer bracket for them but he had 3 different types, The longer one I have seen in the cab 13s and 2 shorter styles one strait and one bent and my question is what were the 2 different shorter ones used in possibly the cab 11 and 12s ??

Also he had a couple different rifle clips ones black and ones in a grey coating and marked 1940 and 44

[Bob Carriere]

Hi DAve

The longer one is for the cab 13.... the second picture should be for cab 11 / 12.
Reason is the back wall of the cab 13 is not as tall as the cab 11/ 12.

Early ones seems to have leather, than followed by rubber but as time good bad plain steel spring.

The very short one are for a variety of specific use.....UC.... inside radio truck. HUP... other armoured vehicles.


Cheers

[Niels V]

Does any one have spare the wider type clip, used for the butt end of a riffle when its mounted in clips only. its about one cm wider ?

[super dave]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

Hi DAve

The longer one is for the cab 13.... the second picture should be for cab 11 / 12.
Reason is the back wall of the cab 13 is not as tall as the cab 11/ 12.

Early ones seems to have leather, than followed by rubber but as time good bad plain steel spring.

The very short one are for a variety of specific use.....UC.... inside radio truck. HUP... other armoured vehicles.


Cheers

Ok so there is a strait one and the bent one which would be for the cab 11-12 and is there any difference between the 800wt and 1500wt truck ??

[Bob Carriere]

As far as I know the cab 13 long arm and the cab 11/12 short arm both have straight arm...... they mount almost at the same location and angle....... the lenght is to make up the height differences between the back wall of the cab 13 ( lower back wall)and the cab11/12.

From the angle of the twist on the black one.... it is either a junk yard modification .....or the rifle holder is intended for another type of vehicle.... I am thinking of HUP, radio box 2K1 or large cab13 workshops where rifles were tucked in corners.

Not sure how they were set up in a 800cwt cab11/12 but would put a dollar (now worth 0.69 cents) on similar mounting as 15 cwt.

If the gas gets any cheaper I may go back to hot rodding 455 c.i. Pontiac engines......

Cheers

[super dave]

Ok, the picture only shows the one but there are a left and right bracket and they are both bent the same degree.

[chris vickery]

As a tip if you are restoring these you will find that often times the rubberized coating is either gone or cracked. I used black plastic dip coating which is used for tool handles. Several dips and you can build back up to OEM specs. You can but it at Home Hardware.