fuel tank, selector valve and remote for MKII Carrier

[Mike Gurr]

I currently have a full set of the single strap bags in my carrier and have previously had several of the double strap leather ones also, which, as has been said are made of thinner leather. My take on why to use such good quality materials is simply to ensure the bags remain rigid. Soft flexible bags such as they would be if made of webbing material would be difficult to clip on to the rails inside the carrier body? Britain had a large leather manufacturing industry at the time but the British military did not use much leather so I guess it made sense to spread the work around the different industries.
What does surprise me is that having made these high quality bags they then made cloth liners to take the Bren magazines, why put one bag inside another?
These liners are now very hard to find and I am still looking for four more if anyone has any? Sorry about the pictures, whichever way around they are on my computer they come out sideways on the post!!

[rob love]

Perhaps the outer pouch was meant to be weatherproof and stayed on the vehicle, and the inner pouch was more of a jump bag, removed and left with the bren when it deployed onto position.

[David Herbert]

I agree with Rob, I wonder if the inner bag was used on its own when the gun was used in other roles. However if the rigid version was intended to stay in the vehicle, to protect the contents from the weather and damage, one would expect a metal box bolted to the hull. I suppose it is possible that this was just an intermediate solution to the problem, taken over from pre-carrier thinking in the same way that FATs were designed to directly replace horses, with the stores still in a limber, rather than a truck that towed the gun directly.

David

[Lynn Eades]

Hi Robert. maybe at post #34 this should have been a new thread so that in future this stuff can be found again. I never replied on the mirror because Ron had it covered.
Great info and pics coming through.

[Robert Bergeron]

Very interesting my friends Lynn, David , Mike and Ron , Herbert and Rob . Did i forget someone ? I actually started a thread on adding a gas tank and selector to my Carrier but as we go new subjects come up. I have seen canvas dividers actually sewn into the Canadian ammo bag . I have an example somewhere in the Carrier shed and i will take pictures . But a canvas take out for the British leather ( Pig and Cowhide ) that’s a new one on me . Be my guest Lynn and split the thread . Amazing how the more you get to know the Carrier the more you discover .Cheers . Bob

[Lynn Eades]

Robert, it is your thread. I was just making a suggestion.
I'll just never be able to find the info in a year or so.

[Robert Bergeron]

MODERATOR : Please create new thread titled MKII Carrier Bren mag pouches starting at # 34.