Hello from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia.
I have enjoyed reading a lot of threads on this forum over the last few days so now I suppose I had better do an introduction.
I'm interested in 40mm Bofors stuff, inert ordnance, handbooks, ammo boxes, tools etc.
I also have a 1942 British made Nuffield "M&A" gun. I've spent the last year or so acquiring a few missing bits (including sights) and I've recently started a light cosmetic restoration. Cosmetic because it's been covered most of its life and other than flaking paint (at least 5 different coloured coats!) and minor rust it's in pretty good shape. Plenty of grease everywhere and things like wheel bearings are like new. So for my purposes it doesn't need a full strip down "nuts and bolts" restoration.
It's basically in 1950s Korean War trim with the inertia-braked draw bar (not sure what it's called) and front axle conversion (the hand-operated Lockheed master cylinder rear axle has been removed for a plain axle), and the loader platform is the cut-down version. Also the barrel lock is the later WW2 (circa 1944?) clamp arrangement mounted on the rear chassis cross-girder, and of course it has no electric motors or hydraulic pumps - very rarely see them on any guns these days. I am considering returning it to WW2 trim, but finding the correct parts will be difficult .
Unfortunately like many Australian guns for deactivation it's had the barrel plugged and holed with an oxy torch (including cutting the recoil spring in the process) and had the breech block, closing spring, crank arms and crankshaft removed. It would be possible to replace these items (at a fairly hefty price!) but I'm not sure I want to. Completely happy with a deactivated gun at the moment.
I will post a few photos, including of the (very slow) restoration shortly.
Cheers, Graeme