The Inglis Bren gun

[ovenpaa]

It was hard to know where to put this so it ended up here, does anyone have any war effort favourites?

Veronica Foster, an employee of John Inglis Co. Ltd. and known as "Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl" posing with a finished Bren gun in the John Inglis Co. Ltd. Bren gun plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

This photo is an excellent example of official government coverage of workers at home during the Second World War. First produced in 1937, the Bren Gun became of the most widely used machine guns of its kind and was a staple for line troops during the Second World War

Veronica was well photographed, no idea why...........

[ovenpaa]

There is a good photographic study of the Inglis factory here:

http://www.pbase.com/mrclark/inglis_factory_

[dave_303]

That's a pre-1940 Bren, as seen with the dovetail sight bracket, worth a fortune these days.

[ovenpaa]

Mine was a MkII, I had a feeling the earlier rear sight was only on the MkI and I didn’t think Inglis were in production that early into the war, I could of course be very wrong!

It would be interesting to reproduce the original bracket for the optical sight, build 'the one that got away'

[Dougan]

When I was at school, we used to shoot falling plate competitions with a Bren - would love to do it again now....

[Robin128]

When I was at school, we used to shoot falling plate competitions with a Bren - would love to do it again now....

Was that the 22LR version?

:-P :lol:

[Dougan]

When I was at school, we used to shoot falling plate competitions with a Bren - would love to do it again now....

Was that the 22LR version?

:-P :lol:

No .303 - The cadets (CCF) was part of school, and the school had an excellent armoury...A couple of brens, No.4s, PH target rifles and .22 trainers.

I can remember the excact course of fire, but you started at 500 yrds, shot a given number of rounds (semi auto), then ran forward to 300...a few more shots...then to 200....

We also shot ETR (electric target) comps with No.4s....that was a lot of fun too.

[Robin128]

Can't imagine any school giving that sort of experience and understanding to its pupils nowadays.

[kennyc]

when I was but a nipper I burnt my fingers missing the mag release of a 7.62x51 version of the Bren lovely gun to fire though, almost no recoil on single fire, and a gentle push back on full-chat

[bobbob]

The Ford factory I work in used to build the Bren Gun Carriers. Bit like this but bigger

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