Original British WWII Bren LMG Tripod Traverse and Elevation T & E Assembly - Unissued
Original Item: Very Few Available. Just discovered during a recent warehouse cleanup! These have never been mounted on a tripod "New Old Stock", right from the original crate, only storage wear and grease. Original British Traverse and Elevation gear Assembly for the BREN LMG Tripod. These will be gone very soon! The Bren 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 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. The Bren was originally very close to the Czech ZB vz 30 in construction, with c