Boys antitank rifle mount for T-16

[horsa]

Hey Derek,

I think the early UCs having the Boys mounts is why the Ford engineers had them included with the original design of the T-16. The British tore them out and replaced the front swivel with a fixed wooded block that served as a generic weapon firing rest. And they then added new forward mounts to hold a PIAT since the Boys was being phased out for regular army use.

The photos in my book with the Boys rifle are all regular carriers but none really show the mounts clearly. Also not sure it they are different from the mounts I posted earlier in the thread which are in a 1943 production T-16.

Didn't know you had a Boys rifle. I traded my live one off to Rod in Arizona when I got my carrier. Is yours still live and if so, .50 or .55 caliber? Brennon here in Austin has talked about getting one so you might have an easy regional sale.