WW2 Bren Carriers World Record Attempt at WoW2015

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Wings Over Wairarapa 2015 Airshow - World Record Attempt • Bren gun carrier owner and member of the New Zealand Military Vehicle Collectors Club, Alex Denby, talks to HAFU (in 2013) about the NZMVCC world record attempt at the Wings Over Wairarapa 2015 show. • --------------------- • PRESS RELEASE: 29 Sept 2014 • BREN GUN CARRIER WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT AT WINGS OVER WAIRARAPA • An interest in preserving military equipment will take on a competitive edge at next year’s Wings Over Wairarapa airshow in Masterton. • Alex Denby, from the New Zealand Military Vehicle Collectors Club, announced today that more than 30 Bren Gun Carriers – a light armoured vehicle used by forces during the Second World War – will descend upon Hood Aerodrome over Wellington Anniversary Weekend (January 16th – 18th, 2015) in a bid to break the current world record. Mr Denby says the current record, set in Australia in 2005, saw 17 Bren Gun Carriers be driven under their own power for two miles. • “In addition to the excitement happening in the skies above Masterton next January, a large group of military enthusiasts will attempt to break the Bren Gun Carrier world record by completing two miles of a special circuit around Hood Aerodrome,” says Mr Denby. “It should be a real crowd pleaser.” • Mr Denby is hopeful that over 30 Bren Gun Carriers from all over New Zealand will line-up alongside his own Carrier that he will have spent 12 months restoring, after recovering it from a paddock earlier this year. • I became interested in Carriers thanks to my father Steve, who restored one back in the eighties. We manufactured our own carriers here in New Zealand during World War II. The carriers use ranged from observing artillery, mounting machine guns to towing artillery,” he says. Nowadays, they're just really fun toys, compact, with a Ford V8 motor and great fun to drive . • Mr Denby, an engineering apprentice in Palmerston North, believes New Zealand has the greatest variety of these Carriers in the world. He also says “good old Kiwi ingenuity” has turned them into other creations such as the Butler Brother’s famous hedge-cutting contraptions. • He also says many of the drivers or owners of the Carriers are interested in preserving military equipment and belong to the New Zealand Military Vehicle Collectors Club, which has a long standing association with Wings Over Wairarapa. Mr Denby has attended nearly all the Wings airshows since he was a child and is looking forward to the 2015 event which will celebrate the 100 years of aviation history. The aim for our part of the show this year is also to commemorate both the Great War centenary, as well as 70 years since the end of WWII, Mr Denby says. • • -- • http://www.aviationfilm.com • Copyright © 2014 Historical Aviation Film Unit • This video material may not be reproduced in any form (except as an embedded video on any other website), without the written permission of the Historical Aviation Film Unit.

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