LP2A fitting question

[Mike Cecil]

Lynn,

The image you show is of the early design LP2/2A rear left compartment. The later design included provision for:
(1) the Vickers MMG tripod;
(2) BREN LMG butt box welded to the floor, slightly further back and to the left of the Vickers tripod. The muzzle of the BREN was held in a box-bracket welded to the rear of the air intake scoop.
(3) Spare barrel and hold-all for the BREN, located to the right of the Vickers tripod, tucked in behind the fire extinguisher and against the air intake structure.

The later version also had the Iron Ration boxes relocated from the rear right to the rear left compartment, as well as the BREN spare mag box or Lewis Gun Mag box (the latter only if a Lewis was actually carried). This freed space for fitting a wireless set to the rear right compartment if required.

Later versions of the Drivers handbook have images. I reproduced the compartment images for both early and later versions in my book 'AMEP Vol.2 Local Pattern Carriers 1939-1945'.

Do you have an image of the bracket in your friends carrier?

Mike C