40 mm Bofors AA guns made in GB and US

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
See Bofors 40mm AA Gun UK for some pictures of a nicely restored 40-mm Bofors.

On picture 8 the delivery trade marks are almost visible. Last picture is a NL Naval gun.

Looking at the picture posted above it seems that the gun has a Bofors m/38 FC sight calculator.

The gun is not British made. There are four possible producers:

1. Sweden (Bofors)
2. Poland (Starachowice)
3. Hungary (Mavag)
4. Belgium (Fabrique Nationale)

Of these I think Poland probably is the birthplace and the year 1939 or possibly 1938.

But there is another possibility. In 1939 Bofors in Sweden got an order from Portugal. These guns were made in 1940 but due to the ongoing war they were not delivered (by rail through Germany, France and Spain) before 1943. Portugal sold them some years ago and I have come across such one at a British collector.

Stellan