Improvements in or relating to means for mounting sub-machine guns and other light automatic guns on motor bicycles

摘要

551,504. Gun mountings. TROJAN, Ltd., and MONK, B. Aug. 21, 1941, No. 10662. [Classes 92 (i) and 92 (ii)] A light automatic gun 30 is adjustably mounted on a bracket 12 upstanding from and clamped at 18 to the handle bar of a motor bicycle. The gun barrel is clamped to U-shaped jaws 35 depending from the front end of a member 24 rocking on a pivot 20 on the bracket 12, the rear of the rocking member forming a support for the rear end of the gun. The gun is moved in elevation by a twist-grip. 58 on the handle bar which operates through Bowden cables 52. to raise and lower the rear end of the rocking member through the'medium of a lever 40 and link 46. Firing is effected by a trigger 88 on the handle bar connected by a Bowden cable with an arm 64 which actuates the gun trigger. By releasing the clamp 35, the gun can be readily removed for use apart from the motor cycle.