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Post by tom on Feb 27, 2006 19:50:34 GMT 1
Cheers Matt the only guy I know with few Besa bits is Ian Durrant, so any tip offs will be most welcome.
And the only V-B stuff are some Mags in the US and some monopods over at Longs, If I haven't had them all...
ATB
Tom
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Post by mattgibbs on Feb 27, 2006 20:58:26 GMT 1
Well, perhaps you're right Tom. You forgot to mention the Vickers-Berthier Machine Gun thats for sale in the UK at the mo from the Cobbatton Collection Ok thats not an accessory, its a whole new one, unless its gone! LOL Regards Matt
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Post by Kev on Feb 27, 2006 21:16:02 GMT 1
Tom saw it at Beltring.........and the price tag !
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Post by Kev on Feb 27, 2006 21:20:49 GMT 1
RE - Drop container
Of course I would also need to be given the B17 to drop it out of ;D
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Post by privatefjordy on Feb 27, 2006 21:42:42 GMT 1
No not a B17, buy a Dakota ;D
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Post by Kev on Feb 27, 2006 22:02:52 GMT 1
No its got to be a B17 ! A mate of mine was a radio opperator for the US 885th dropping SOE/OSS stuff from France then Italy. He wouldn't speak to me again if I said anything else I said give.......not buy ;D
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Post by tom on Feb 28, 2006 1:20:19 GMT 1
Yup the Cobbaton one was down for £1750 at Beltring, a roughish Mk III Indian job, the most common sort if the boogers would release them!
Oddly enough when I was in my teens I was offered a Dakota for nothing, I just had to pay for it to be moved. A mates uncle had bought two ex South African jobs for next to nowt and had them at Liverpool airport. He'd caniblised one for parts and it was up for grabs. We had the mad idea of getting it shifted to a bit of land me mates dad had and converting it into a flat but thankfully it all fell through.
ATB
Tom
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Post by mattgibbs on Feb 28, 2006 16:16:00 GMT 1
LMAO! Dash it all Tom, but think what you could have traded it up for now that Kev wants one..! Regards Matt
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Post by mattgibbs on Feb 28, 2006 16:21:09 GMT 1
Yikes! Nice price. Just wait a little while and see what comes along I guess, unless the Law catches us all out. At least we will still all be able to buy those natty accessories we want, like the webbing and stuff. I'll have to try and be at beltring on the thursday to catch any of the bargains before you guys arrive Regards Matt
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Post by Kev on Feb 28, 2006 20:53:40 GMT 1
Tom,remember this one from a year or 2 ago ? Its still there (wrongly described still) 291. WEB GUN COVER - Rare British 1940 dated full cover for the Browning .30/.303 cal water cooled 1917-1917A1 Machine Gun. $250 Anyone interested ? view here - www.aa-ok.com/Page3.htm
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Post by privatefjordy on Feb 28, 2006 21:28:04 GMT 1
Would the Bren Blank barrel shown on that site be subject to licensing here in the UK?
(I mean as an accessory, not as part of a functioning weapon)
Are the set of Bren web pouches, actually for the Boyes AT rifle? or for something else (I've seen them described as Boyes elsewhere)
George
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Post by pongo on Feb 28, 2006 21:40:24 GMT 1
I think the Blank barrel is still classed as a live barrel ,silly i know and as such it is classed as section 5
Pongo
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Post by privatefjordy on Feb 28, 2006 21:47:40 GMT 1
Thanks Pongo, I thought it might be.
George.
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Post by tom on Feb 28, 2006 22:45:34 GMT 1
Those pouches aint for the Boys AT rifle but are post war, for carrying radio batteries, made for the Belgium army I'm told but I have a suspicion that they are Italian as the leather straps on the back set of pouches are rather like the ones on their basic pouches, before they went over to lift the dot closure.
Theres a set at Warminster and thet have a label on them saying they are for the boys from when they were donated. Typically theres no stampings at all on them, just like on the Italian basics.
ATB
Tom
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Post by mattgibbs on Mar 5, 2006 16:26:08 GMT 1
The cover arrived in the post yesterday and is indeed in excellent, virtually mint condition. It arrived with the barrel bag I also bought [1943 dated] and from the look of them they have been folded up together for quite some time. It fits my 1938 Bren fine and all the straps do up ok without any stretching or anything, so it appears to be A OK. [thankfully - it wants to be!]. At my funeral it will be wrapped neatly and buried with me I can't quite understand the comments stating for AA use because how the heck would you fit it on to the gun while it is mounted on the tripod.? Cue someone to now state the obvious.
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