Tripod part 2 with bren

[36 hamon]

Complete with Mk2 Inglis bren ...Happy New Year!

 

[stencollector]

While I have several of the tripods of both marks and both British and Canadian (CCM) I have, over the years, only had one chance to buy a tripod which still had the little clips for the grip handle as you have on yours. I stupidly let that purchase (and it was a CCM tripod at that) slide through my fingers and have not seen another since.

 

[36 hamon]

Were your ccm Mk 1 marked NZ... i have seen lots of the tripods with the holes in the tube for the clips but this is the only one i ever saw complete

 

[55recce]

Repro clips are available https://www.dandbmilitaria.com/bren-mk1-tripod-grip-12-gr-32

 

[stencollector]

Were your ccm Mk 1 marked NZ... i have seen lots of the tripods with the holes in the tube for the clips but this is the only one i ever saw complete

Mine is not NZ marked that I can see. Where is yours marked?
Mine has serial number M3067. I note in your other post yours has serial number M9456 which woudl seem to indicate a lot more than 250 made.
My mk2 CCM tripod is worse for wear and was missing it's T&E and stops. I just received those pieces about a month ago so it is time for a disassembly, sandblast and repaint. I have a second Brit mk2 tripod in the gunroom and a mk1 British tripod stowed in my Bren gun carrier. Notable is that a mk2 tripod will not fit in the mk1 UC carrier brackets.

55recce: Thanks for the link to the buttgrip brackets. I think their price is for each, which, by the time they are shipped, makes it an expensive purchase, if the company will even export and our customs allows import. I may take a stab at making some.

 

[36 hamon]

I figured they made more then 250 you just dont see that many Canadian ones my others were BSA iirc ..you can see the NZ mark on the head where the front pintle connects ...post

 

[x westie]

My dad used a Bren gun on a tripod at Boulogne France , May 1940, serving with 2nd Battalion, Welsh Guards, as part of the 20th Guards Brigade defence of Boulogne

 

[stencollector]

I checked my mk1 tripod....no nz markings.

 

[36 hamon]

I sure would like to know more anout these there is very little info on contractors ...who made what and when

 

[wheaty]

I looked at a set that had markings and a run through the Canadian Trade Index came up with on possibility.
They also made other parts as well.
I contacted the company and the person I contacted was very excited that I had traced them, but the new owners of the company told her to drop it.
Apparently they did not want to advertise they made anything for the war effort during WW 2
There you have the story.
Same thing with the EAL story.....

 

[purple]

I used to use my BREN tripod as a shooting rest in a gopher rich field. I rigged up a platform with extra fittings which then became a base for my rifle rest. It was an excellent rig for a heavy barrel varmint gun.

 

[55recce]

Its not surprising that so many were ditched. They are so heavy, over complicated and uncomfortable to carry for a magazine fed LMG. Pity the #2!

 

[36 hamon]

The german layfette tripods were much heavier then the bren i carried my 42 layfette around quite a bit long tike ago when we could still shoot them very awkward and heavy i would carry the bren tripod any day over a layfette