Enfield cartridge belts?

The standard method was : Bandoliers holding 50 rounds.

I have a pair of belt mounted double charger pouches that hold two chargers per pouch. That makes for 40 rounds on the belt itself.

LE Owner..just a note here.I think you'll find that the chest pouches on the web gear is for BREN magazines.All infantry wore the pouches, & were required to carry BREN magazines in them.2 per pouch, 2 pouches per man.BREN gun magazines held 30 rounds per in .303.Therefore each man was carrying 120 rounds for BREN support.
Hoadie

You can use 7.62 NATO bandoliers for .303. They are a tad snug, but quite usable.
They even have nice snaps, not twisted bits of copper wire. The Aussie ones are the best IMHO.

That web design was continued through the 50's, as was the BREN. The STEN (AKA: room broom) wasnt in as big of use a you may think.In fact, the tactics/ formation of a rifle company was built around the BREN.
(Damn fine weapon, that BREN.)
Hoadie

True as that may be, the BREN was still the section's prime.The Sten became-from what I'm told-popular with the "house to house" & "mouse-hole" combat.
They were also unstable & considered dangerous to their own troops.Sudden jarring or impact could/would set them off.They were not accurate, by any means.Commonly reffered to as "the plumbers contribution to the warr effort" .
TONY! a little help here? Wasn't your dad the "Bren-man" in his unit?
My uncle was in the reserves in the 50's. The late John Arbuthnott(I used to hunt with) was the designated Bren in his unit in 59-63 reserves.
Hoadie

No hoadie my old man wasn't a bren gunner but I can catagorically say ( information from my old man who served in WW2) that all the troops were issued with bren mags because the bren was the light support weapon for each section. Yes we did lose a lot of weapons at Dunkirk but production was stepped up to cover the losses.  The Sten was designed during the Battle of Britain as  a cheap weapon for supply to both troops and latterly resistance workers. The 9mm ball was standard and should ammo become scarce German ammo for the MP40 could be used.  The sten fires pistol ammo with a limited range and accuracy (ideal for house clearances etc but sod all good as a section support weapon in the field) was cheap to produce but could be just as dangerous to the users due to the number of accidental discharges because the bolt lock wasn't as good as it should have been.  Enfield went over to mass production of Brens whilst other factories like Fazakerly produced the rifles. Belt fed machine guns were Vickers ( you should try carrying 1 then you'll see why the Bren was adopted) heavy cumbersome brutes ideal for static warfare but a liability for fast moving troops.  I can vouch for that having carried both the Bren and the GPMG had a hand in moving and setting up an old vickers and had a near miss with an old sten when the halfwit carrying it caught the but on the tailgate and shoved half a magazine through the canvas roof of the lorry just missing my head. The chest pouches also carried grenades, modifications were made for drivers who were hampered by the hight of the chest pouches. Consequently they were issued with a single pouch with a loop at the back for attaching to their web belt for carrying Bren magazines.

hoadie wrote: LE Owner..just a note here.I think you'll find that the chest pouches on the web gear is for BREN magazines.All infantry wore the pouches, & were required to carry BREN magazines in them.2 per pouch, 2 pouches per man.BREN gun magazines held 30 rounds per in .303.Therefore each man was carrying 120 rounds for BREN support. Hoadie

Nearly right.  Only the Bren No.1 and No.2 carried four magazines in their pouches.  In the case of No.1, a fifth magazine was carried on the gun.  No2 also carried 50 rounds in a bandolier for his rifle.  Each man in the Infantry section carried two full magazines in their pouches plus 100 rounds in chargers, in bandoliers.

Next, Bren magazines were only loaded with 28 rounds each and so each man other than No.1 and No.2 carrried 56 rounds in magazines.  As the Bren used up magazines the empties were distributed to the members of the Section for refilling from their bandoliers.