Canadian army 1986 Armstrong MT500 (76)

[Frédéric Lapierre]

Originally Posted by frichtie

Congratulations. Your MT looks amazing.
I had two of those in the past. One very complete that i sadly sold to a museum in Quebec.(i was married back then...)
The british Armstrong didn't have electric start.
On top of your right side pannier frame, you can see some holes that were pre-drilled to install a mounting bracket for the then in use 9mm Sterling smg.
I'll try to find some photographs of it somewhere....
Now all I have is a canadian klr250. A wholo lot more reliable but it's just not the same...

Is it at "l'épopé de la Moto"? I've seen it before lol. As for the Sterling machine gun I have an airsoft copy in the mail and I've found a mounting braket for it :P

[Ed Storey]

C1 SMGs were no longer in service when your Armstrong bike was introduced into the CF.

[rob love]

Are you talking about the Armstrong or about the KLR250 Ed?
I believe there was an overlap of a two or three years for the Armstrong MT500.

I went to 3RCR in the summer of 1987, and within a month or two we got the first of the C7 rifles in Canada. Germany already had them, and since the RCR were rotating over the next year, they got the rifles a little early so they could fully train on them. And reserve units did not get the new rifles until about 1990, so their FNs and SMGs continued until then.

[frichtie]

Originally Posted by Frédéric Lapierre

Is it at "l'épopé de la Moto"? I've seen it before lol. As for the Sterling machine gun I have an airsoft copy in the mail and I've found a mounting braket for it :P

Exactly. That's the one. And the Sterling was with the CF until 1988-89.

[Robin Craig]

I know its a bit of a necropost but McRae was the half size plastic jerry can your idea or a genuine CF usage idea by happenstance?

[James P]

Originally Posted by frichtie

Exactly. That's the one. And the Sterling was with the CF until 1988-89.

Sterling ?? Sterling ?? what is this Sterling ?? you speak of in the CF who used the C1 SMG (yeah yeah, I know it is a Canadian built version..........but lets call it the right thing).