Staghond MG mounting issues

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

As a matter of curiosity, do you have any idea how the conversion worked?

I can recommend Canada's own Collector Grade Publications, which among many other great books has published a 4 Volume, 2000 page treatise on the Browning MG. Vol 2 covers the British conversion in detail, amongst many others.

http://www.collectorgrade.com/bookshelf2.html

[Mike Cecil]

Tony,

If you have that publication, does it include a mounting change in the conversion? If not, we can discount that as the reason for Dan's mystery mount.

Dave: the 7.92 mm Besa Mk.1 and Mk.2 used a square clamping bracket with a vertical recoil restraining bolt on the left side: there was no provision for a horizontal pin.

Mike

[motto]

Spoke to JB a couple of days ago and as far as he could remember the co-axial MG for the Staghound was only ever the .30 Cal Browning. Unfortunately his armourer buddy who knew all the details of such things passed on a few years ago.
With the Besa being out of the question it remains a mystery what was used in that odd mounting.
The L3A3/L3A4 seems unlikely for as far as I can tell the mounting pins pass through the receiver of the M1919 and so would make it impossible to alter their position.
Maybe the answer could be found in the Collectorgrade books mentioned by Tony but not if they eliminate the L3A3/L3A4

David

[rob love]

Could the ,main gun/sleigh and this bracket have been off a different piece of equipment that used a different co-ax?