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10-05-16, 00:07
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Thinking about it again, it's obvious that an adaptor is required as you have a requirement to be able to have some arc of fire from the firing point as well as elevation. It's very surprising that it doesn't have a part number.
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10-05-16, 06:53
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Al, there is rotation in the mount.
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10-05-16, 08:26
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Nice find, It must mount to the frame of boys between the trunnion and the rear sight, not the barrel or receiver as this all recoils back when the gun is fired, unless the mount frame is for something else ?
Kevin.
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10-05-16, 09:30
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Was the Scout ever armed with the Hotchkiss Machine Gun? As the Hotchkiss has a stub out each side of the gun which with the use of a boss for the square side, may fit this mount?
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10-05-16, 09:43
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Alex, the mount must be for a single shot weapon, as an automatic gun would recoil on the springs with next shot being fired before the spring returns, so putting it off target etc.
Kevin.
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10-05-16, 12:08
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Alex, I don't think the Scout was ever set up for anything else, other than the Boys (in the front)
Your Hotchkiss mount would be quite narrow compared to the Scout mount. Also we (N.Z.) took on the Hotchkiss because we were short of LMGs. They were as I recall surplus WWI guns. The British carriers were built around specific guns, First the M.G. Carrier was built around the Vickers water cooled MMG. This carrier was superseded by 3 carrier models; The Bren, equipped in the front with, funnily enough a Bren gun. (about 1937- 1938) Originally built around the idea of the gun crew being dropped off and the driver retiring with his carrier. The Scout was a fighting carrier equiped and built specifically for the Boys anti tank rifle, in the front and carried a Bren in the rear. (1939ish) The third one being the AOP (an adaption of the Scout) No Boys, no Bren LMG, just personal arms. The point being that the British built the carriers around current arms designs.
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11-05-16, 08:07
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Today Alex sent me a photo of his LP2 front armour. It has been drilled to take the Scout, Boys mount. He is excited!
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