Got this via my Recce Friends.

http://www.pbase.com/mrclark/inglis_factory_

This Veronica Foster chick is something else -- smoking at an inspection station, laying a rag on a rotating part of a lathe, not wearing safety glasses while making a cut...

Most of these are still in stock with the Canadian Forces and it's quite possible that I handled one of the guns in this picture or that one or more is in Afghanistan right now!

http://www.pbase.com/mrclark/image/58303175

Welcome to a world without OSHA.


Shot

A number of surplus Canadian Inglis Hi-Powers were imported to the States back in the '90s--by Century Arms, I believe. I could kick myself for not grabbing one; I worked for a wholesaler then.

What is this AA system?

I can't seen your referenced image, but if it was from that Photo array, I think it was a CMP C60X chassis with a Maxon Quad 50 turret.

She can do whatever she wants in my book, she's real easy on the eyes.

It's a quad turret with Polstien 20mm by the look of it.

Picture appears to have disappeared. That was what I thought it might be when I first saw it but upon closer inspection it was obviously 20mm guns, not .50cals. I've never seen that particular turret before (or since). Nor the manner of mounting it on a truck in that way. A most unusual find. I wonder if these vehicles were used in quantity or if they ever left Canada?

Geoff should know, or Maple leaf up

Could be worse, at least she didn't leave the chuck key in

And you know this from personal experience?

BD, there were a hell of a lot of these AA combinations tried, based upon 15cwt through 30cwt to 60cwt chassis, and all the way up to the Skink (based upon the Sherman Grizzly chassis). The bottom line is that while a number of 15cwt and 60cwt AA vehicles (with 20mm & 40mm guns respectively) ended up in continental Europe, they were mostly used for ground support and not replaced once they broke down. The Luftwaffe just wasn't the threat everyone had envisioned. Most of the odd-ball pics you'll see of AA trucks are one-off test vehicles which never left Canada... I suspect most were converted back to GS trucks at some point in their lives, and there are but a handful left in existence.

Interestingly, the one REALLY oddball vehicle was an adapted 2pdr carrier, which unlike the Australian example, was of almost identical layout to the standard Universal. We made 24 of them only, of which one was sent to England for trials and seven or eight survive here. Pretty amazing percentage when you think about it!

Geoff, thanks. It was just an unusual vehicle/weapon combination which I'd never seen before. I was just wondering if any had left Canada, thats all.

No worries.

As far as the original topic was concerned, we still had WW2 Inglis Browning HPs in service in the early Eighties - I had to draw one every time we moved weapons up to any range - and I suspect we still do. They might be a bit loose, but they still do the job...

I also trained on Inglis Bren Mk.1s through the Sixties and into 1970. They took them away in '71 though, which pissed me off severely. Good guns, those... now all I have is a John Inglis Company washing machine - hardly the same, although periodically it makes similar noises....

Geoff
I used a Chinese Inglis as soon as last year on the range here in Ottawa... saw the WW2 sticker, and chinese markings, still shot OK, not near as nice as the Sig a few years earlier

Nope, but there is a reasonably large hole punched in a wall from someone who did around here

Yeah, but what can you expect from a bunch of engineering grad students?

It was in the undergraduate lab