A ride on a WWII Bren Gun Carrier

During the Military Jeep Club of Queensland's annual Christmas Party (1st-2nd December 2007) I had a ride on a WWII british Bren Gun Carrier. You can see what it looks like in my other video. This is a rare vehicle in Australia as most of the surviving examples are of LP2A local pattern. The armour had been removed during its use as a farm tractor.

The carrier's brakes didn't work, the steering was not very effective, it wasn't running on all cylinders, the gears had to be changed by a passenger upon hand signals and it had a jury-rigged coolant overflow system, the consequences of which you'll see toward the end of this video. All I can say is, boiling water and steam is HOT!!! I bailed out after the hot water started spurting out in the engine compartment.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• WWII
• WW2
• WW11
• Bren
• Gun
• Carrier
• tracked
• vehicle
• military
• jeep
• MJCQ
• offroad
• 4x4
• club
• queensland
• G503
• LP2A
• local
• pattern

[D342DIESEL]

That is a ford flathead v8 right. I don't think any one els made flat head v8s at the time.

[madaboutbrens]

Steve she's in need of resto get her sent my way along with the other Tub, i will see her good

Rich

[theoldgalah]

yaahoooo

[Builderman121]

uuuuhhhhhhh...?

[JeepDraw]

Hot stuff Steve. This is what I was talking about..... one in this condition.. Sooooooo excellent!

JR