Wanted: Rifle clips for Cab 12 CGT

[James Gosling]

Hi Niels,

I have 4 left and have pictured one of them.
PM sent

James

[Niels V]

Hi Phillip and James
I have sent a PM to you.
Niels

[Phillip]

Hi Niels,

Leather covers, made from vegetable tanned undyed kangaroo hide.

Wayne Henderson has some (old and decayed) samples that he is going to check this against.

PM sent.

Regards

[Wayne Henderson]

This is a Thompson clip from the Chev 6 seater (Aust).
Different clip with the original leather in 2 pieces, the same general style.
Single fold and stiched top and bottom.
Wayne

[Niels V]

Thanks for the pics and the PM Phillip.
I have found while looking through pictures that I need 12 total, So I am still on the hunt for 4, if any body has some to spare please let me know.
Cheers Niels

[Eric B]

Hello

As mentioned in a previous post, there are two different size clips.

There is a smaller one (rifle clip #1) for the barrel and a larger one (rifle clip#2) for the hand stock.

Brian Asbury has the smaller ones, or he did NOS, which were used when mounting the rifle vertical with a wooden block.

When mounted horizontal as in an MB/GPW or UC it would have both.

The larger ones are the harder one to find, i am looking for one.

There were also styles that just had the bracket minus the mount that had leather rivetted to it.

thanks

Eric

[Niels V]

Hi does anyone have four of the large version of the rifle clips ?

[Arthur Morel]

Hi sorry if you have any spear i will take a set to please

[Niels V]

Hi Bob
My original thought was also that they also all where the same.
and you are quite right about how they are mounted in the Cab 11/12 and Cab 13.
But it is a bit different in the gun tractor, the clips are here mounted above the doors.
Here the front ones are the same as in the normal lorries, but the rear clips, for the stock of the riffle, are about 1 cm wider and bit taller that than the front ones.
I had it confirmed by a friend who has an original untouched Cab 12 CGT.