I have some pictures of the internal steel bands and realised they were bolted at the back where the spares wheel holder fits but I thought they were only screwed to the sides.
Are there also two bolts on the other side?
And does the rear Bren gun mounting also bolt through the steel band?
The other side has the same coach bolts in the same position.
However, we're talking about bikes from appx. the 3rd contract onwards, before that they didn't have the reinforcing bolts.
Saying that, the reverse is for the Bren mounts, only the first and maybe the second contract had those!
But the rear Bren mounts were not attached to these strips, I know I had a hard time positioning the mounts, and had to resort to actually borrow a Bren to make it all fit, as there's not much room for error!
The 1938 picture shows a sort of a spacer/strip behind the bracket:
I think it's easier to chuck the bren in the sidecar, and fasten it with a canvas strap inside the front handhold, this was the usual practise, and the tripod was sometimes stuffed in the ammo box at the back, the lid cannot close, but who cares?
what a strange place to put a bren gun its barrel will fill up with dirt as you travel alone these muddy tracks even with a cover on it not the best place for it
what a strange place to put a bren gun its barrel will fill up with dirt as you travel alone these muddy tracks even with a cover on it not the best place for it
Roger, that's what the Army realised and did away with it after the first 2 series of contracts!
Rob, just got a parts list in the mail from Contract 11297, and the gun brackets are listed there, but I was going from evidence on wartime B/W pictures, so who knows what happened?
Did they forget to delete it from the parts lists??