Vickers MMG with Bren Tripod.

[mrx]

Here are some pics I found while I was looking up Bren info at the AWM site.



Wonder what it was like to fire!

[Peter Wells]

Have just found this so please pardon the necropost.
The reason I googled the subject is that 5 Bren tripods have just recently come out of Zimbabwe - along with some other awesome stuff but that's a story for another day.
We didn't immediately see anything odd about them as they were lumped together with other Mk1 and Mk2 units but on closer inspection realised that they must be these converted Vickers types which, according to some sources, were only used in Aussie training camps.
Interesting to speculate how they arrived in Zim as the only time Rhodesian and Aussie troops were deployed in the same theatre was Malaya and Burma. These bipods must have been deployed with Aussie forces to one of those theatres and come home with the Rhodesian forces.
Any additional info/speculation would be appreciated.