Fox firing mechanisms

[lssah2025]

Bruce, are you going to do anymore sets of the grips?

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by lssah2025

Bruce, are you going to do anymore sets of the grips?

I haden't planed on it, they were a bugger to do. If there was interest (for the grips, or do you mean the whole rig?) I think casting or 'scanning and metal printing' the ones I've made would be the route to go. Solid cast cosmetic ones would not be too hard.

Here's the Italian originals I patterned my copies after, and that wartime factory pic showing them:

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Just to close this off, here are some pics of the firing mechanisms installed. First, seen attached to the M1919A4 and M2HB Brownings. Second, a closer pic showing how the 30 cal. is fired by lifting the trigger and the 50 from a lever actuating the 50 cal. side firing adapter. Next the pistol grips below the guns and last the brass catching bag and chutes.

[Neil Ashley]

These look like standard British pattern triggers used in all British manufactured AFV's. I believe Tobin in the UK made some recently. Not sure if his functioned or not.

[David Herbert]

Certainly there were many 'standard' British components that were copied in Canadian production but virtually all were significantly different in detail (and generally rather better for it !). For example the round pistol ports in a Ram turret are almost identical to those in a Churchill tank sponson door - but not exactly. the Fox itself was a vastly modified copy of a Humber AC. I would be very surprised if he British ones share any identical parts with the Canadian ones.

David

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

As there doesn't seem to be boxes of NOS grips out there I'm happy to have something in the turret. The devices attached to the Browning MGs would be unique to Fox I think, marrying up the British grips to American MGs.

[Andrew Rowe]

The grips do certainly look exactly like 2pdr and BESA, even the internal mechanism, Cheers Andrew.