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1942 WW2 Canadian Manufactured Inglis Mk.1 Bren Gun (Serial # 4T.1350) Donated by: Lieutenant Michel A. Hayes-Rivet, (ret.) donated in 2020Description
WW2 / 1942 Canadian Manufactured Inglis Mk.1 Bren Gun (Serial #4T.1350) Donated by: Lieutenant Michel A. Hayes-Rivet, (ret.) donated in 2020 with Magazine clip, barrel, removable eye sights, and rifle butt, with simplified non-telescoping bipod legs and modified rear sight. (Eff range 600m; Max range 1,690m) intact.
One of 12,000 Bren Light Machine Guns manufactured by John Inglis Ltd. for the Allied Forces in the Second World War. The Bren Gun was the British and Canadian Army’s standard light machine gun of World War II and would continue in service until the 1990s in its 7.62 configuration (post .303 conversion occurred in the 1960’s). The Bren is arguably the best light machine gun of the Second World War and saw service around the globe. It weighs just over 23lbs unloaded and fires from a 30-round box magazine with a distinctive curve to accommodate the rimmed .303 round
The Bren gun is a series of light machine guns (LMG) made by Britain in the 1930s and used in various roles until 1992. While best known for its role as the British and Commonwealth forces' primary infantry LMG in World War II, it was also used in the Korean War and saw service throughout the latter half of the 20th century, including the 1982 Falklands War.
Donated by: Lieutenant Michel A. Hayes-Rivet, (ret.) in 2020Context
The Bren gun was a series of light machine guns (LMG) made by Britain in the 1930s and used in various roles until 1992. While best known for its role as the British and Commonwealth forces' primary infantry LMG in World War II, it was also used in the Korean War and saw service throughout the latter half of the 20th century, including the 1982 Falklands War. Although fitted with a bipod, it could also be mounted on a tripod or be vehicle-mounted.
The Bren gun was a licensed version of the Czechoslovak ZGB 33 light machine gun which, in turn, was a modified version of the ZB vz. 26, which British Army officials had tested during a firearms service competition in the 1930s. The later Bren gun featured a distinctive top-mounted curved box magazine, conical flash hider, and quick change barrel. The name Bren was derived from Brno, the Czechoslovak city in Moravia, where the Zb vz. 26 was designed (in the Zbrojovka Brno Factory) and Enfield, site of the British Royal Small Arms Factory. The designer was Václav Holek, a gun inventor and design engineer.
In the 1950s, many Bren guns were re-barrelled to accept the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge and modified to feed from the magazine for the L1 (Commonwealth version of the FN FAL) rifle as the L4 light machine gun. It was replaced in the British Army as the section LMG by the L7 general-purpose machine gun (GPMG), a heavier belt-fed weapon. This was supplemented in the 1980s by the L86 Light Support Weapon firing the 5.56×45mm NATO round, leaving the Bren gun in use only as a pintle mount on some vehicles. The Bren gun was manufactured by Indian Ordnance Factories as the "Gun Machine 7.62mm 1B"[4] before it was discontinued in 2012.Created By
Lieutenant Michael Hayes-Rivet, retired.Create Date
December 27, 2021Updated By
Abdourahamane, IssaUpdate Date
August 9, 2024
