Thread: Universal Carrier aka Bren Gun Carrier

Originally Posted by Ralph1Malph

Thanks for the heads up!
Where are you again?

Cheers
Ralph

Originally Posted by Ralph1Malph

Ps, anyone got any bren carrier bits lying around?

Cheers
Ralph

Adelaide. What parts are you looking for?
Aaron

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Carriers were converted in large numbers after the war into farm crane bases, agricultural vehicles, cane haulers. The wheels were used by Brisbane City Council on their truck drawn wooden site sheds. Not much use for scrub pulling unless it was light scrub. The carriers simply did not have the mass and power of a crawler dozer. Fuel usage was frightening and the Ford V8 tea kettle made summer use in Qld. distinctly uncomfortable. Nev. Morris at Dalby may still have parts.

Ah yes, the good old Ford S.V,......I've owned a few of them.
When my friend was rebuilding his Bren Gun Carrier, he installed a Ford 272 "Y Block",...not sensational, but much better than the original.
Pickles.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

... and the Ford V8 tea kettle made summer use in Qld. distinctly uncomfortable. Nev. Morris at Dalby may still have parts.

Can you imagine sitting in the rear (or anywhere for that matter) of a carrier in the North African desert durng WWII?

There was a carrier at Corowa a few years ago with a 351W and auto trans. That was a wild thing.

10year ago I talked to a Newcastle [CARDIFF] based company about engine trans mounts made up using old steel brackets and having them chromed.


the cost was making the jig to hold it in place that they wanted me to do myself.


then was KG's of rubber stuff[cheep] and hours in auto clave --thrown in on top of a load--worked out at $8 a mounting


good utube stuff on how to make poly suspension bushes.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Can you imaging sitting in the rear (or anywhere for that matter) of a carrier in the North African desert durng WWII?

There was a carrier at Corowa a few years ago with a 351W and auto trans. That was a wild thing.

Probably beat the hell out of walking and carrying the Bren. A mates father told us when we were young men about being in a mortar crew in New Guinea. They back packed a 4" mortar and ammunition broken down into man loads on jungle tracks.

My brother-in-law (died 2005) talked about carrying a mortar base plate on his back across the Owen Stanleys. (both ways)

John

I'll talk to a mate of mine and find out who he's getting to re-rubber the wheels on the one we're resurrecting at the moment, he mentioned seeing a photo in the display at a mining show, and asked the rep if he'd had much call to do carrier wheels, apparently the rep wasnt at all suprised, and had actually done quite a few

Originally Posted by 303gunner

And what photo you have posted shows that your carrier is NOT a British Mk2, but actually an Australian LP2 or 2A. Any chance of a full pic of the vehicle?

I'll try to post a pic of the actual carrier at some stage. Sorry for the confusion, the pic I posted was just a google stock pic, only to illustrate the wheels in question. It's not of the actual one.


Cheers
Ralph