Found some interesting Inglis pics in the archives

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I did some snooping around the Toronto Archives today looking to update my site. Found quite a few really nice pics of Inglis. I usually look around the federal archives but it seems Toronto's site is better, go figure. There are some pics of the 1919A4 in production would this be Long Branch?

Have a look at the detail.

Enjoy.

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very cool

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millionth bren mag ceremony

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yes please

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Awesome photos, hard to believe it happened in our own backyard. Now that whole area of the factory site is apartment complexes.

I drove down the Gardiner expressway the other night and couldn't help but notice an Inglis appliance advertisement and just thought to myself of these photos, the Bren guns, and the Browning hi-powers being made on the factory site not far from that sign.
 
That loooks to be a .303 aircraft Browning.
1919A4s in .30 were made in Windsor.
Notice the 7.92mm guns and magazines.
Quite the Nationalist Chinese delegation.
 
tiriaq said:
That loooks to be a .303 aircraft Browning.
1919A4s in .30 were made in Windsor.
Notice the 7.92mm guns and magazines.
Quite the Nationalist Chinese delegation.
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So the 308 1919A4's were in fact made by CAL or LB? I wonder how many are out there?

I wonder of that Nationalist Chinese delegation how many got smoked by Mao? I wonder if any are alive today?

Glad you liked the pics folks I'll keep searching if I find anything else I'll post them
 
Nabs said:
Awesome photos, hard to believe it happened in our own backyard. Now that whole area of the factory site is apartment complexes.

I drove down the Gardiner expressway the other night and couldn't help but notice an Inglis appliance advertisement and just thought to myself of these photos, the Bren guns, and the Browning hi-powers being made on the factory site not far from that sign.
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Now its just condo's and a parking lot.
 
tiriaq said:
That loooks to be a .303 aircraft Browning.
1919A4s in .30 were made in Windsor.
Notice the 7.92mm guns and magazines.
Quite the Nationalist Chinese delegation.
Click to expand...

Chaing-kai-Shek and his Nationalist Chinese were one of the biggest disappointments on the allied side in WW2. They gobbled up huge amounts of war material which was produced and delivered to them at a huge cost and produced very little in return.

It was a thoroughly rotten regieme which was ineffective against the Japanese and conserved it's resources to fight Mao's communists. They did a pi$$-poor job of that. They centered themselves on the urban parts of the country while Mao was out winning the hearts and minds of the peasants. At one point post-WW2 the US stopped sending them military aid as most of it was either flogged to local warlords or went directly to the commies as their armies defected. We got a lot of it pointed back at us in Korea.


They did have a huge political lobby in Washington which generated a lot of sympathy and support for them in the US, Canada, and elsewhere. Madame Chiang, an attractive, well-spoken woman who was educated in the US, was their best PR instrument. The rump of the Nationalist Chinese have hung on in Formosa as a historical curiosity since being driven from the mainland in 1948.
 
It was the US who were the main advocates for the Nationalist government. A lot of Cdn. supplied arms were used against Cdn. troops in Korea.

As far as Cdn. Brownings go, 1919A4s in .30-06 were in the inventory into the '60s. The 7.62x51 C5s were conversions, I would assume by CAL. Brownings were made in Windsor, don't know where else in Canada.,
 
It seems such a waste to give those magnificent specimens to such corrupt douchebags.:(

Too bad we didn't issue more of them to our troops and keep some in reserve to be sold to the public after the war.:D

Man, would it be cool to have a mint Bren gun.
 
tiriaq said:
As far as Cdn. Brownings go, 1919A4s in .30-06 were in the inventory into the '60s. The 7.62x51 C5s were conversions, I would assume by CAL. Brownings were made in Windsor, don't know where else in Canada.,
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do you know where at in windsor? id like to see if the buildings are still around.
 
Those are all great photos. Note photo 2 showing the .55cal Boyes anti-tank rifle. My father used to talk about shooting those puppies. They had quite a push at both ends. What up with that prissie-looking Chinese firing the BREN with a hanky over the butt?:redface: I wonder if folks know that Inglis also produced the BREN in 8x57 for the Chinese. Too bad we didn't convert ours to 7.62 to have a real LMG instead of that horrible beast, the FNC2-a real comedown from the BREN.:(

One of our neighbours was an engineering student when the war broke out. He stayed with this a while before joining the Navy and had the experience of touring both Long Branch and Inglis as a mechanical engineering student when they were going at full tilt. This gentleman also did engineering work on the ALCAN Highway before going into the Navy and I used to enjoy his stories a lot as a young fellow.
 
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